beaver pond

[asakiyume]

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.





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



Evidence (pond-facing side):



Some extra gnawing (trail-facing side):



Again, that tree is TALL:



So think of beavers. There was no pond before but there is a pond now.

Comments

[heleninwales]

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.

[asakiyume]

I love that it's possible to bring animals back. So many animals are more present now than they were when I was a child; I'm super grateful.