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Post by stratcat on Jun 29, 2011 16:58:15 GMT -5
Someone's in the garden besides the baby bunny and me. The pea on the left shows some scoring. The plants are up off the ground. Birds? I've seen a cardinal flying off with a stem of straw mulch for nesting material. hehe.
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peppereater
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Post by peppereater on Jul 8, 2011 14:25:56 GMT -5
I saw this post before and didn't really have an answer, but as noone has reponded, I'll take a stab at it. Are you sure that bunny isn't turning into a vampire at night? lol I can only think it could be a bird making such uniform, v-shaped bites. Even that doesn't make a lot of sense, because I'm not sure any birds beaks are that perfectly straight edged, seems there would be at least some curvature or the v's would be slightly more narrow. What's just as strange is how it seemed to "mouth" the pea on the left without fully biting it, sure looks like some sort of beak did that, but why just "gum" it, lol, and not bite deeper or completely through? I don't know exactly what a typical turtle bite would look like, they do tend to have a point to their upper "beak" or whatever the correct term is, but I'm thinking their bites don't leave a distinct v. No rodents or reptiles I know of would leave this sort of mark, and I can't imagine it's any insect. An insect culd possibly chew out v shaped wounds, but even if so, what explains the shallow scoring? That's not a chewing pattern in that case, it's got to be single chomps. No way it could be bacterial or fungal rot either. I'm totally at a loss. Is the damage only to peas something could reach while standing on the ground? Threaten to send the bunny to bunny guantanamo bay, I think he knows something he's not telling.
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grunt
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Post by grunt on Jul 9, 2011 13:45:00 GMT -5
Given the shape of the bites, it pretty much has to be a bird of some type. The shallow scoring says the same thing.
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Post by stratcat on Jul 9, 2011 14:15:42 GMT -5
Thanks guys! It sure seemed like a bird to me.
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