Beaver Sign

I was clearing trail again today and came across a bunch of sugar maple saplings. Rather I stumbled across a bunch of former saplings as the local beaver mafia had 'taken care' of them.

What's that insect doing?

It's a bit hard to see, but the beaver drag trail (below) shows a bread crumb trail of wood chips. It's the on ramp for the flooded lowland beaver freeway to the overdeveloped beaver condo complex. They got skating rink and everything.

You win this time, beaver!!!

Guess you won't be needing this flooded

beaver freeway for a while. Sorry!

Beaver 1: Bill 1

In the morning I heard rifle fire of deer hunters not far off. The afternoon was quiet and am happy to say that I watched four deer grazing nearby. They only stopped when I stopped to watch them. They went back to eating when I started to toss logs left and right again.

Dam Beavers...

You may not know, but I've waged an ongoing battle with a pack (?) of beavers on the western edge of Deerwood. They keep building up a dam with the purpose of flooding a large portion of woodland, killing the vegetation and transforming the whole area.

Well, the beaver play their games and I play mine. I think I have every right to maintain the woodlot without the gallivanting beavers making a mess of it to suit their selfish ends.

Anyway, after busting up a new beaver dam a month ago which leads to the beaver pond, I returned today to find this....

The beaver have repaired their me-destroyed dam for the third time!
Notice the flooded area (bottom) and beaver pond (top).

So, with broken silver birch limb in hand, I scooped a hole in their dam repair job and the water flows again. Yea!

A-ha! Billy Bobo 4, Beaver 3.

Now that the Spring snow melt is over, the beaver will have to wait a long time for another chance to flood Deerwood. And I'll be waiting....