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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] 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!

[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] 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