On Friday Hubby and I took a couple of trips up to the beaver dams in Fountain Valley. Every year on a continual basis we have to rip sections of the dams apart or the Ranch seriously lacks for water. If there’s an abundance of water it’s fine but when there’s a water shortage the beavers do not like to share and keep building dams that get much too wide. We find draining off some of their water helps down here quite a bit.
We go to Fountain Valley Tree Farms which is on private property and we have permission from the owner.
A beaver lodge.
Digging out one of the many dams.
It doesn’t take long and the water quickly subsides.
It was a tad breezy while we were there.
We managed to get one beaver.
The beaver tail.
The topside of the beaver’s back foot.
The ponds the beavers have created have increased quite a bit since last year.
Hubby with a pulaski.
Mikey holding the beaver.
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5 comments:
No pepsodent there eh! Where is the Davy Crocket Hat? ab
Your photos are amazing. You live in such a beautiful place. thanks for sharing you world.
Thanks for the account of the Beaver Busting.. us city dwellers might tend to think of beavers as being "cute" and hard workers. Nice to see the other side of the coin and how things really work in nature...
It's funny. I know what beavers do and all, but when I think "beaver", my first though is Franklin's rather bossy and know-it-all friend form the kids book series. Not quite the same, eh?
I have never seen a picture of a tail. Thanks for sharing!
Those are some nice shiny, yellow beaver teeth :)
Adel, Friend of AB
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