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

[yamamanama]

They're one of three mammals that actively change the environment to suit their needs (the others are the elephant and the human)

[asakiyume]

I didn't know about elephants! What do elephants do?

[yamamanama]

I don't remember the specifics.