Thursday, December 17, 2009

More Evidence of Beavers in our 'hood




Part of a tree that is behind our back fence blew down a while back. Recently a fresh pile of wood chips on the ground below it caught my eye. I hopped the fence and discovered....



....that a beaver had been working on it.





Here's my hand in the picture for scale.




This piece looks a bit sculptural, with a slightly spiraled look to the core.






Strangely enough, there is a scattering of pieces of small branches approximately one foot long stretching from the downed tree along the side of the stream to that little bridge. But no evidence of a dam built nearby.

I am now seriously keeping my eye out for any beaver damage to other live trees. Luckily so far it has just chewed on this downed tree and taken out my Black Willow bush that is on the stream edge, but I'm slightly nervous about what's next!

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