Don't worry mate that's just me, I don't eat bark tho
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Don't worry mate that's just me, I don't eat bark tho
Surely if it was a horse it would have some clear prints close by? or prints/crap of the actual offender?
Horse must turn its head sideways and scrap/ bite, the pics i took are vertical like they have opened their mouth and draged the top teeth down the tree trunk.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spook
Due to the height that you state...I think kaka...and gibo's are deerQuote:
Originally Posted by Bill999
Was up there in the weekend saw alot of this myself a mate I was with said the same, goat or deerQuote:
Originally Posted by Bill999
I have sent some pics to the smartest bushman I know (not me)
Will see what he says
Thanks Twoshotkill I wait with anticipation:D
Here is the reply I got
Please note I have changed the names incase he doesn't want his name put on here
Hi TWOSHOT, Sorry to be so tardy to get back to you but we have been on a bit of a deadline to put the deer cullers magazine to bed. Deadline is 15th Sept.
Deer do eat bark and so do goats. Bark eating seems prevalent in late winter early spring and I believe they are after the inner bark the cambium inner bark because it carries a lot of sugars and nutrients at that time of the year.
The possums you will see will go on the willows at this time of year when they are in bud and they strip the bark off the top metre of the new branches and eat the cambium layer.
One of the tree that gets really chewed by goats and deer is the Puka. If I have identified it correctly it is a puka the hunter is holding up in the NZHS thread "Tree bark peeled off Question" I looked at today. In areas where lots of goats camped nearby, or have high deer populations every puka is barked in the area
A deer often stands on its back legs when they are bark feeding and a stag can reach a long way up a tree, so can a goat. I have found deer dead, hanging from a foreleg where the deer has caught its front foot in a fork and snapped its foreleg. The bone then locks across the fork and the animal cannot free itself.
A kaka will strip bark looking for insects but mainly up near the top of the tree.
Why do they do it Twoshot?. I don't know but I am sure it is part of the food cycle that they rely on for good health. Why do the deer hunt out the only tanekaha or celery pine in thousands of hectares of tussock to polish their antlers on. I mean to say how does the stag know that this is the tree that will give his antlers that perfect red brown stain. They cant see themselves so how do they know this. I expect, as with the bark they a instinctively driven to do this.
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Good info.
Love the kisses at the end twoshot
They were for you missus not you!!!
Oh what! Gutted, thought our relationship was really progressing?Quote:
Originally Posted by Twoshotkill
Settle for a beer tomorrow instead??
Some of the places stripped a deers head simply wiuldnt fit, and some was so high it surely couldn't reach without leaving substantial sign around the base of the tree if they were able to reach that high at all ie 4 plus meters high
I'm not convinced it was deer. What ever done it needed to climb the tree
A red deer on its hind legs would get to that height.
I have shot a goat up a tree :D
I had shot a billy and then noticed two nannys up a tree. As in well up. Still got me Buggered as to how they got up but they did.
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Yea mate google goats in trees they are awesome
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Hmmmm....
Wallaby!
Kaka will peel the bark off trees to allow insects in to colonise on the exposed timber. They then come back later for a feed of insects! Suspect you dont have kaka in your area though
The ex culler is correct. Spring sees high sap flow up from the roots which have stored sugars and vitamin c. Pregnant animals will look for this, even on youngish pines. Top terminal cambiym stripping on pines are usually possum and this can also coincide with pollen production which possum are also partial to. Its bad news in pine plantations because it can kill the main leader and cause the tree to grow valueless multileader stems. Ie, no straight high value sawlog. One territorial buck jacko can do a wealth of economic damage.
Another pic from yesterday... Attachment 124102
Have seen a lot of bark stripping in the past two years. Red deer. Nothing else about. Caught on camera doing it. In areas I go is happening more and more and coinciding with a noticeable increase in population. Am sure it happens in low population too, but the deer are in poor condition and the palatables are not plentiful. Central North Island mostly. Deer populations in the bush are growing and everyone seems to be hunting open country with dial ups these days. For deer to be consistent in the open there are a shite load more in cover. Like the man said about rabbits. For every one above ground, there are ten below. Sell your WSMs and Edges and go bush young hunter. :thumbsup:
This was the same young tree. Good info Woody
I have seen bark chewed a lot like this in various forests. Wineberry is a favorite during winter when food is short. I have heard that there is a higher sugar content that attracts the deer and goats. My bet is deer as there aren't any goats in the areas I have seen it but both do it.
Jacko! Seen a lot up Inwoods,cross the face where the power goes up and along the road.Quote:
Originally Posted by Strummer
Set 12 traps for 9
I don't believe old poss is doing that, more likely deer. Recently saw a young pine looking just like that pic, it was fallow deer. Whiteywood in the same area was really bark-stripped and broken, and no goats in the area.Quote:
Originally Posted by madjon_
Classic down here is 5 finger the reds smash it around may its loaded with sugar they strip every bit of bark they can reach , the juice turns to a clear jelly an inch thick , some spots you cannot find a 5 finger that has not been eaten .
Original picture is a Coprosma grandifolia (Kanono), it's highly palatable and probably not well recognised by hunters on account of it being heavily browsed. I see this bark biting often, particularly of grandifolia in the Mamaku
Twenty feet up!:)Quote:
Originally Posted by rockland
Hell the deer must be huge over there madjon ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by madjon_
those are pate leaves and deer give the bark a hard time in the winter early spring,,eaten bark looks slightly purplish
Pate (seven finger) looks quite different but definitely gets heavy browse
Edit: Actually I realise that was probably referring to the pictures of the bark and not the foliage haha, the true topic... In which case, ignore
you are right sir its a grandifoliaQuote:
Originally Posted by joelhenton
