Ha......... !
Sooooooooooooo.......... Jay ate my nuts!!.........
Whooo......... damaged my tree!!!.......

Now......It looks like the strippers are peeling it oFFF!!!!....
Does this look like Porcupine damage??????????......... Remember "We" don't have Porkies here.........

Vinke, I think that what your seeing is tree squirrle damage. I have seen this here before. As I'am sure you know a squirrles inciser teeth grow for the life of the squirrle and he has to chew on something every day (ie. various nuts, seeds etc.) and if for what ever reason these become unavalable or in short supply he must find something to chew on to keep his teeth wore down. I have seen them chew on beams on patios, wooden decks, trees, and even saw in more than one instance, where they chewed almost a full square of asphalt shingles down to the sheeting!

Bob

Vinke-
I haven't the slighest idea. We don't have "Porkies" here either! Have you found a way to keep Jay away from your nuts????

EDIT: I haven't seen that type of squirrel damage around here. But, there are a lot of things that I haven't seen.

It's not porcupines.

Thread hi-jack
Mac-
I was about to think that a mountain lion or lynx had gotten ahold of you! Welcome back!!!

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..............This "Type" of damage was through out the "Tree" farm......On maple and Pine trees....all sign was old so no tracks and No fur.......Digging under the fencing was consistent with a larger animal......but that could have been anything....... I have never seen squirrel damage like this???????????
Any porky damage pics?????????

Signed
Ihate Trees.......

Thanks Ron it's always nice to stop in here and catch up. I hope things are well with you my friend. I hear there are some mighty fine beaches in Alabama and I need to get down there soon!


-Mac

Vinke, who says "we" don't have porkies in Washington state? When I lived there, I walked up on one on the banks of the Columbia River while I was checking the river pump house for the nuclear plant. Saw chest high grass moving, and walked right up on it. It was huge. And it was definitely a porkie. I got close enough to spit on it.

In "my" area .....but I have been wrong before....I have trapped one South of me 73 miles....

Do skunks climb trees?

Looks like a kid with a pocket knife......

-TJ

yeah what jimmy said, some kind of pocket knife or axe

thats what i would thing

Look like you "Bad" kids all think alike LOL.........

It is not a KIds......no "ifs" "ands" or "buts" on that one....... right now I an saying not a tree rat..To much damage in over 75++++ trees........
The care taker on the next property had the same problem....... And claims there is a "Exotic" in the neighborhood......(rural area in 10-20 ac. tracks, with a community landing strip.....)..

A moutain beaver with climbers (like they use a telephone polls!) Ha!

Try some trail cams

Looks like sasquatch has been treenockin to call his buddies to come and get the free nuts.

This what I see for common damage done by squirrels......Usually on ceder trees



But.....i am finding that there "is" small or "was" small numbers of Porkies in "My" area......
I will be trapping for One (?) in Seattle next week....were i knew they existed.......

I know there are Porkies in Washington, I ran across a momma and her two little ones a few years ago while there.

and I don't, haven't and won't live there.

Me tooooooooooo.......but all have been south of me....So far....

Washington State has many differing regions.....from Rain Forrest to High and Low dessert.........Then add the Mountainous regions....with there own sub climates..... and you will be able to find "Anything" if you look hard enough///////////......but not in All areas...........

In Washington, we actually have no less than 15 distinctly different ecological zones.
We have almost every species of game, large and small, and many species indigenous only to the Northwest.

But because of the way these zones are isolated from one another, by rivers, large bodies of water (both fresh and salt), and mountain ranges, there is somewhat of an "island effect" as far as dispersal of species.

This isolation has bred subspecies, unlike their cousins lower in the branches of evolution, including the Columbia Blacktail, the Olympic Marmot, the Pacific Coastal Coyote, and the Rufous (or Western Red) Bobcat.

It also leads to "surprises", like an animal where he doesn't really belong... 30 or 40 miles of walking can take one from the Pacific Crest, at the top of the mountains, to a salt water beach.
Or to the Great Basin desert.

It'd be really easy, for a porcupine to feed his way up into the high country, over a low saddle, and end up forced downhill by winter, and into Whatcom County.
They (porcupines) aren't completely unheard of, anywhere in the State, just rare in some parts.

Barkstone,

Weren't you turkey hunting, in the north/northeast corner of the state?

That's very very different from the west side, and the part you were in is one where porcupines are prolific.

Krusty

Most of Washington does have porcupines, or at least suitable habitat. Mount St. Helens has the largest porcupines I have ever seen.

Look here: http://depts.washington.edu/natmap/maps/wa/mammals/WA_porcupine.html

Do you guys in Washington state still have to be seated, before you can be served a beer? That's the dumbest law I've ever seen.By the time I got to Anchorage I was REALLY thirsty!

not porkies

Dave,
While mountain beavers would have no problem climbing those trees it doesn't look right for mountain beavers to me. Not porkies either. How high off the ground is it? High in the trees I'd guess squirrels. Less then head high I'd guess deer,horses, cattle or similar. Notice I said guess.
Bruce

You think that's bad: In Oregon it's illegal to touch, move or take furbearer roadkill. Now coyotes, possums, squirrels and nutria are just considered varmit, so that's A-ok.

But if you picked up a beaver, bobcat, mink, muskrat or even a raccoon, you would be breaking the law! Only those with the Fur-Taker's license can do it legally.

Yuo think that's bad. In WA it is illegal to pick up road kill regardless if you have a license or not even if within the legal trapping season.

Gezzzzzzz........there goes lunch...........

What was the all that damage caused by Vinke? Figure it out yet???

This isn't the topic i was expecting, the subject was misleading.

Good luck with your squirrels!

This job was sometime ago....
When I arrived the damage was over 12 days old
..The location was monitored using still and video imaging for a period of 30 days..
During this period no activity was detected. No damage has accrued to this day..... that I am aware of ...

There is speculation that an "exotic" escaped from a near by Estate..

So on a job like that, what happens? You still get paid even if whatever it was doing the damage seemingly packed up?

There is a inspection fee
Digital surveillance fee
And a Data processing fee

One of these days if you ever make it down, you'll have to let me ask you a million questions. I got breakfast.

Solve the mystery?
Hunters in climbing deer stands could cause similar damage . . .