Tree question? What are these marks from?
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Ice damage? Animal? I did hear trees with violent cracking Monday of muzzleloader all over the woods, after the rain the inches of snow with the temperature plummeting fast.
that last pic looks to me like woodpeckers or other birds working on the crack for bugs and just tearing up the bark a little in the process. Wind shakes are pretty common in trees around here.
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I believe the majority of trees on my 8 acres that are basketball sized to table top have this strip all various heights. It seemed like something just rubbing the bark.. I thought it may have been winter cracks with sap leaching and all the critters licking it. I'm pretty certain I've seen on TV or real life squirrels or birds do this. The dead ash debunked the sap thought. Ive never noticed this before this winter. A few money logs in the lot have turned into coon holes that started out as small holes 15 years ago. Damn those big pecker birds, their cackle call does sound cool echoing through the woods.
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Vines and optics... Dave how many Busch lites have you had... Can't see what marks on trees has to do with optics???
This dude can see the size of a pecker on a bird! What kind of optics is he using?Vines and optics... Dave how many Busch lites have you had... Can't see what marks on trees has to do with optics???
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Ok... Now I see .. Hope you know I was only busting your balls buddy and not being a wise ass ..
Don't laugh, but I have a memory of seeing a squirrel acting oddly on a tree. It caught my attention and I thought what the hell is wrong with that thing. I watched for a good while, it would not leave a certain spot on this tree alone. It continued to act all cracked out over a small area of this tree in a way I've never seen a squirrel behave. After awhile I walked up to in investigate to see why this squirrel was so infatuated this such a small spot on the tree. I could clearly see sap had been pouring from a wound and so much it had dripped alI over the leaves below making them wet. The only conclusion I could make is that thing was licking the sap from this tree. I have this memory 100 percent etched in my mind but for the life of me i cant tell you if its reality or a dream. I didn't see a bird licking sap(i think that's a TV memory )or the squirrels tongue directly licking sap but could be the only possibility I could think of........I use Bushnell h20s.