Beaver Pond behind the scenes

With the water receding out of the beaver pond, I had a chance to get a closer look at what goes on behind the scenes at one of these constructions. I was very impressed!

First of all, judging from the bare earth in this photo, there are places in the pond that may have been as deep as eight feet! For a little stream like Beaver Run, that is pretty impressive.

I’ve mentioned that we are seeing deer and squirrels walking around where the pond was. The deer have even broken their old paths back in, you can see where the grass has been knocked down and the little hoof prints. So we return to normal.

We saw one of the little beavers in our yard, on our side of the street the other day, and a larger one, an adult, around the bend in the road. And there are still ducks on what’s left of the pond.

In the photo above, there is a green clump of vegetation in the center of the shot, with a fallen tree nearby. In this final picture, we saw what we’ve suspected was there all along, but couldn’t confirm while the water was up – the underwater entryway into the beaver hutch.

When I was a kid, we had a book with a cutaway view of the hutch and entryway. I could spend hours looking at that picture, imaging what it was like to come and go through the little portal. Now we’ve finally seen it.