On 28/04/2013 18:36, wrote:
In article ,
Jeff Layman wrote:
On 28/04/2013 08:57, Dave West wrote:
Outside our garden fence is a Viburnam Tinus shrub about six feet high.

It has recently had a 7cm wide strip of bark bark neatly removed all the way
around the stem about six centimetres from the ground.

Do you have deer in your area? Roe and muntjac deer eat bark. For
example, see "Diet" he
http://www.new-forest-national-park....fact-file.html

He did say 6 cm off the ground - damn small deer :-)

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Indeed, but that's why I mentioned muntjac. Quote from the link I
noted: " They will also strip bark from the bottom of trees."

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Jeff