There is evidence of beavers around the lakeshore and its adjacent ponds and streams: gnawed trees, tracks, lodges and dams. Yet, I rarely see the animal itself. The problem may well be that beavers are most active from dusk to dawn, a time that doesn’t fit well with my observing schedule. Yet, now and then we overlap.
When spotted Saturday evening, there were two beavers sitting on a boulder. Alas, one was just leaving.
The remaining beaver was gnawing on (what appeared to be) an alder branch.
At one point, the beaver left and returned with another branch. The branch is being dragged along underwater; it is the lighter region extending from below the left eye diagonally across to the beaver’s right side.
Back at the boulder, the beaver set about gnawing on the new branch.
Well, hello.
