Monday night our toothy friends took down another tree, this time one that we actually planted in the ‘annex’ years ago.
It was fun to find this old movie of our 2008 planting with the then-enthusiastic city engineer. That little girl is Luiza Daberaku a million years ago who is now a starring LaCrosse player in her senior year. I spot Jean and Cheryl too, also some really helpful park rangers that unfortunately moved out of state. We’ve been at this a long time, haven’t we?
I started wondering if they were moving back towards their old haunts so we checked Ward street last night and saw nothing. Then went this morning to the annex to investigate. At 5:45 I was lucky enough to see a mud covered beaver squishing his or herway through low tide. There wasn’t enough water to cover them. I thought s/he’d head for the felled tree but s/he went straight up stream. We followed to Ward street and eventually saw two happy beavers chewing and swimming there. We assume mom is less than a month from having kits, and should want a dam and home to protect them. Both damlets seemed a little worked on but neither very well, so we are totally confused about their plan. Beaver urban sprawl?
I wish I could have taken a photo of that mud-crawl. It was too dark and there is no single image in the world that could come close to explaining. Afterwards and still there was a deep channel of stirred mud where he or she trudged through. Almost like those sad African documentaries where elephants sink trying to get to a shrinking water hole. It worried me when I saw it, because one frisky dog could end it all for a beaver that can’t get away.
But they know what to do if they want deep water. Ahem.
The founder and CEO of our fiscal sponsor, Loren Cole, will be on the radio this evening between 9-10 with Helaine Forte on her show “Now for some good news!” He’s really done good things for us a thousand nonprofits in the world, so tune in if you can.
