Something is systematically cutting off limbs from our persimmon tree. The cuts are very sharp and straight, almost as though they had been cut with a saw. There is a very tiny bump right in the middle of the cut. It appears to us that the critter is sawing around the limb, and as soon as it gets loose enough, it falls from the tree.
Our field camera showed no other critters around.
Please take a look at this damage and let me know if you have any ideas what our culprit is, and if so, how to make him go away.
I'll post another picture under this one if I am fast enough.
Thanks for any help.
