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

[minoanmiss]

Go industrious rodent landscapeers!

[osprey_archer]

Those beavers are doing an amazing job on that tree! I wonder how they decide which trees to target.

[sovay]

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.

[lilysea]

I <3 beavers ^_^

and their landscaping helps mitigate catastrophic once-in-100-year floods!

[minoanmiss]

I found you a shirt!

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[puddleshark]

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!

[anna_wing]

That's utterly amazing!

[amaebi]

Go, go, beavers!

Thank you for these placid photographs of new growth and richness out of the demise of what was.

[yamamanama]

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

[sartorias]

Oh, all that green! I love it!

[wayfaringwordhack]

That is such an inviting place. I would love to tarry there. And see some beavers at work. :D