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asakiyume ([personal profile] asakiyume) wrote2022-05-25 04:46 pm

beaver pond

Perhaps you're in the mood for a change of pace?

We went for a walk through a landscape transformed by beavers. It's always been marshy; they have turned it into their own habitat. There are frogs in here, and red-winged blackbirds flying over the reedy parts, and redstarts singing in the skunk-cabbage parts.

pond

pond

We saw a great tree, SO TALL, that will soon be down:

another view of the tree being gnawed

Evidence (pond-facing side):

beaver gnaw

Some extra gnawing (trail-facing side):

bites on the other side

Again, that tree is TALL:

tree being gnawed

So think of beavers. There was no pond before but there is a pond now.
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[personal profile] minoanmiss 2022-05-25 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Go industrious rodent landscapeers!
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[personal profile] osprey_archer 2022-05-25 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Those beavers are doing an amazing job on that tree! I wonder how they decide which trees to target.
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[personal profile] sovay 2022-05-25 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
There are frogs in here, and red-winged blackbirds flying over the reedy parts, and redstarts singing in the skunk-cabbage parts.

That is a very lovely beaver-formed landscape, thank you.
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[personal profile] sovay 2022-05-26 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
You're welcome; we could all use some beavers about now.

They build.
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[personal profile] lilysea 2022-05-26 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
I <3 beavers ^_^

and their landscaping helps mitigate catastrophic once-in-100-year floods!
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[personal profile] puddleshark 2022-05-26 08:02 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, wow... That is such a beautiful landscape.

Dorset Wildlife Trust recently re-introduced beavers somewhere in west Dorset, a small scale trial in a secret location. I hope beavers can work the same transformation here!
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[personal profile] heleninwales 2022-05-26 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
We have some small scale trials of beavers here in Wales too. One of them is fairly local, but I don't know the exact location. They are intended to help prevent flooding by holding back water so it's released more slowly. Beavers used to be native here, but were eradicated over 100 years ago. It would be lovely to see them in the wild again.

[personal profile] anna_wing 2022-05-26 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
That's utterly amazing!
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[personal profile] amaebi 2022-05-26 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Go, go, beavers!

Thank you for these placid photographs of new growth and richness out of the demise of what was.
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[personal profile] yamamanama 2022-05-26 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
They're one of three mammals that actively change the environment to suit their needs (the others are the elephant and the human)
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[personal profile] yamamanama 2022-05-27 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't remember the specifics.
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[personal profile] sartorias 2022-05-27 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, all that green! I love it!
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[personal profile] wayfaringwordhack 2022-05-28 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
That is such an inviting place. I would love to tarry there. And see some beavers at work. :D