Beaver Dam Fails

Over the winter and throughout the spring we enjoyed our new water view across the road, as the beavers had set up a dam very close to us on Beaver Run. Apparently, with the pups all grown and after the rains we've had, the dam has broke, and much of the pond is drained.

In an earlier post, I wrote about all the wildlife we'd observed there, including the beavers, fish, ducks, geese and herons. There are still ducks and fish, although I didn't see much of the other animals last weekend.

The water has receded, but there are still areas where there is standing water in the deepest parts of the pool. Our little four-foot cascade that had serenaded us all that time is gone, the water no longer high enough to divert over it. Now there is a mucky black soil left in the areas that were formerly submerged.

Other wildlife is moving in: we saw a squirrel scampering around on the newly exposed earth, and as we were leaving Sunday night, a young deer was passing through there. It's a cycle, there will be plenty more to see, and hopefully this smaller pond will remain for a while.