And then I came across this...
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| The Beaver Lodge (actually it is a bank burrow) is in the foreground and their food branches are frozen in the lake ice. |
Our beaver has added to his lodge. He put fresh mud on the top and added a few more branches to the structure. He also gathered a bunch of branches at the entrance to eat during the winter. It has only been about 5 days since the lake froze in the bay. In the fall, beavers cache (store) branches and logs in the water, near a lodge or bank burrow so it is easy to get at in the winter. Beavers will go ashore in the winter as long as they can break through the ice at the pond's edge. More information about beavers on my favorite nature site EEK!
One of my fisherman says that he has seen a total of 6 beavers! And one is the size of a medium sized dog! He said that they are very busy on the "point" chewing down the Vicki Martinez memorial Willow tree and taking it away.
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