It's too bad about your rhododendrons, but you can be sure there were some very sick deer wandering in the woods, projectile vomiting! Rhodies are extremely toxic. The would have been pretty desperate to eat that much of it. If it was only one or two deer, they might actually have died from it. I have had goats get really sick from just eating a few leaves, let alone half a bush!
The bush has been here for over 50 years. That it was safe.
That's crazy that they would attack it like that! Did you have an unusually bad winter?
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Very little snow.