This is either very bad news or very interesting news. Rusty Cohn caught this photo last night of a beaver in Napa. Look at her tail.
Bullet hole? Radio transmitter hole? One thing we know for certain is that it’s not made by a beaver. I’ve asked around a and would love to year your thoughts. Here’s a typical Radio Transmitter attached to a beaver tail from a study in Oregon.
It’s rotten to imagine this being a gunshot or to think of some local taking shots in the water so close to home. But kind of wonderful to imagine its from a transmitter since no one I know of in California doing this work. That would mean she’s an out of state beaver? Like an Oregon escapee? That’s at least 337 miles away. Quite a swim to freedom.
With beavers it is always very good or very bad news. It’s never in between.
