From Our Bush - April 28, 2016

To the casual hiker, these bent saplings wouldn’t draw too much attention other than to make one think that maybe heavy winter snow had caused them to bend and snap.

And if one looked around, there would likely be more of these bent saplings.

However, in nature, not all that you see is what you think it is.

What these saplings really represent would be almost impossible to determine except for a seasoned outdoors enthusiast. Unless of course one happened to look down at the ground.

The large pile of round light coloured balls is actually moose “scat”.

And the reason the "scat" is near the saplings is because it is in the middle of the "restaurant" where the moose was eating it’s sapling dinner.

What the moose actually does is break the sapling at about the six foot mark and bend it over so that the tips of the branches can be easily eaten. And since the moose eats only the tips, there are always quite a few bent over saplings wherever the moose chooses to eat dinner. 

There were a few moose staying in our area this past winter as is evidenced by “restaurants’ like this appearing along logging roads and on high ridges.

Something interesting from our bush!