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Busy Beavers on the Shenandoah River

Posted in Animals, Small Town Life, tagged Beaver, beaver lodge, daily painter, Shenandoah River on March 3, 2013| 2 Comments »

Over the past few months while walking the dogs down the path at Eastham Park to get to the dog park we have noticed several trees along the river that were down. A month or so ago while Allen was walking with me he said it looked like a beaver had been working. So yesterday I took a couple of photos of their handiwork. Beavers are the second largest rodent in the world but they sure look a lot cuter than rats! They build lodges and apparently that is what they are doing at the river. Beavers are herbivores preferring the wood of cottonwood, alder, birch, maple, and also pondweed and waterlilies. There used to be many more beavers but having been trapped for their fur numbers are down from a high of some 60 million to around 12 million. (More on beavers here.) So far we haven’t actually seen a beaver but we look every day and maybe we will see one soon. In the meantime we have to be happy to just see their handiwork. This is one of the things I love about walking down to the dog park. You never know what you may see down by the river.