#tree damage

My first thought was rabbits based on the first glance on the low and narrow belt, but walking closer and seeing the big area in the back with the distinctive teeth marks it was clear the offender was a porcupine.

They are omnivores, mainly eating plants and at the end of winter, when food is scarce they love to eat bark.

Root Wrangling (Photo: R.P. Murphy) FYI, it’s not ALL fun and games at Rosslyn. Sometimes there’s tough work to do! Like root wrangling, for example… But there’s no reason work shouldn’t also be fun, right? Do you remember that whopper of a storm this summer, the microburst that blasted Rosslyn, snapping limbs and uprooting trees? At last we’ve de-stumped and extracted the root balls. How did…

A frightfully strong wind, rain, and hail storm blasted Essex this afternoon. Significant storm damage to trees.

Storm Damage, August 30, 2022 (Source: Geo Davis) With the last sands of August slipping through the hourglass, the winds of September have already arrived in full force. And this afternoon, following an alarm on my phone by only a very few minutes — enough for me to rush around the house battening down windows and doors, and enough to quickly hustle Carley out for a pre-downpour potty break —…