This happens a lot too:
And I still prefer them to Canada geese!
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Hmm, you sometimes see deer over in the river gorge, but not in my neighborhoodâŚat least not that Iâve ever heard ofâŚ
We do have raccoons, squirrels of course, and occasionally opossum in the yard. Would any of those eat bark? If other food isnât available? Most of the nibbled branches are near the ground. I still think maybe bunnies, maybe they can stretch out pretty long to eat off higher ones?
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I agree with @anon67050589 that itâs likely deer. They will do this sometime in the winter down here in GA, even though we donât have especially harsh winters. Iâve even seen them in action once or twice (since we have deer regularly roaming around our property and in our neighborhood).
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Nah, not at 4 feet in the air: thatâs deer, especially if youâve seen them anywhere in the vicinity.
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Oh hey, it just dawned on me!âWe had such deep snow cover this winter, and the rabbits would have been standing on top of the snow, and would then easily have reached higher on the bushes to eat the bark. Duh!
Another funny thing about the rabbitsâ winter eating habits is that the neighbors have a crabapple tree in front, just under the streetlight. During the winter the shriveled fruit falls off the tree and lands in the street. Very late at night when no cars were driving around, the rabbits would come to eat the fruit. I kept wondering if they minded the road salt though, and it made me think about how tasty preserved lemons or salted plums are 
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They were probably getting hammered off the fermented crabapples too!
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Worked outside today cutting the grass for the first time and then replacing the springs on my garage door because one of them broke.
I was tired and wanted a nap, nope, they beat me to it.
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Iâd usually see two of them together under the streetlight. Maybe not much different from going out to have a cider with a pal 
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My daughter is fostering dogs. This one is 3 months old, 27 pounds, suffering from kennel cough, never been inside a home, not potty-trained, etc. Within 36 hours they had her reliably going outside to âdo her businessâ, and she even waited until 7:00am today to bark to let them know she was desperate to go. A little bit of a dribble, but managed to mostly hold it until they took her outside. Very smart little doggie!
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Right! Could have been both deer and rabbits, but some of those tooth marks definitely look like little rabbit teeth scrapes.
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That was fun! When I finally figured out what was going on I exclaimed so loudly that I think I startled people sitting nearby.
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No deer in this neighborhood, but thereâs rabbits all over the place. Theyâre chomping off anything thatâs poking up and green now.
We inherited some raised garden beds last year when another tenant moved out, and last week I was excited to see a few small green leaves of a hollyhock come up, that I had planted last year (they supposedly flower the second year) but a couple days later it was gone, poof 
Iâm not even going to try planting vegetables, when the co-op with its beautiful produce department is just a few blocks away. I can just enjoy watching the bunnies in the yard without being in a war with them 
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Maybe squirrels? This is what our squirrels do to one of our trees:
They have access to water (I see them drink from the bird bath each day). They scramble up and down the tree, but Iâve also spotted them chewing the bark off the tree.
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Oh my goodness!
We do have tons of squirrels, as well as tons of rabbits. I imagine everyone out there was hungry this winter. Minneapolis had its third-snowiest winter on record; as of April 1st weâd had 89.7 inches.
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Kitten season started. Foster neighbor has 5 6-week-olds.
The white ones are âthe Notesâ: Whole Note (darkest thumbprint), Half Note (medium thumbprint), and Quarter Note (just a little smudge). Quarter Note is the only girl.
The tabby is Tinker.
This is Captain Hook. Heâs pretty mellow though. He gets his own photo because phone camera canât manage white and black in the same image.
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OMG. Theyâre so freakinâ adorable. And that wee tabby (Tinker) in the first photo. So chill!
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