Lots of grass Giant Blue Heron and pond covered in Duck weed some visitors to the pond River Otters seem to watch us as much as we watch them sometimes Muskrat taking bedding material back to it’s nest in the Beaver Lodge aerial view of the Beaver pond a few years ago before the new hotel was built in the empty lot During a big storm the Beaver Lodge was almost submerged and some of the Beavers ended up waiting it out mid day on the top of the lodge Kevin Swift of Swift Water Design installing a pond leveler

Just your average Napa Beaver dam under a 100+ year old stone bridge

click on photos for higher resolution Grooming away Acorn Woodpeckers hanging out above the pond Adult with kit Deer going over dam at Tulocay Creek

The Napa Creek Beaver Pond is located in downtown across the street from Kohl’s Department store surrounded by parking lots on three sides. It is fed year round due to Cal Trans pumping water from a Hiway #29 underpass into Napa Creek. The first couple of years we only saw one Beaver. As time went on the Beaver population grew and the diversity of wildlife in the pond expanded.

Mink are not common but certainly a treat when they do appear.River Otters make their way thru the creek on a somewhat regular basis

As the Beaver dams come so do the food sources. Hawk with Crayfish

Green Heron

Some of the animals I’ve seen at two urban Napa Beaver Ponds (click for hd view)

Beaver of course and a Black Crowned Night Heron

MuskratDeerVarious fishRedwinged blackbirdGiant Blue HeronBeeVarious birdsEgretDragonflyDucksVarious fishGreen HeronMale Hooded MergenserFemale Hooded MergenserMinkRiver Otter and CrayfishSunfish Turtle (invasive Red Slider)Western Pond Turtles (endangered)Wood DuckMourning DoveWoodpeckerJack RabbitHawkKingfisherInvasive Bullfrog tadpole