Folks have called me a beaver knowledgeable town-crier and I usually know what’s going on in the beaver-verse. But I never thought I was beaver-psychic. That’s comes as a surprise. Look what’s hot in the Canadian news today.
All-white beaver shocks Beaver Dam man
A Beaver Dam man is in complete awe of an encounter he had with a blazing white beaver this week. Paul Mikolas says he was standing near the river by his home, in the aptly named community south of Fredericton, when an all-white beaver swam right up to him.
“Pure white,” said Mikolas. “And it was huge.”
Mikolas said the size of the animal took him by surprise, just as much as its bright white coat.
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Well I can imagine the man never saw an adult beaver before so that probably accounts for his shock at the size. But the color must have been something to see. An albino-beaver. That’s got to be rare even in Canada.
Because beavers are normally shy and wary animals, Mikolas said this white beaver’s behaviour took him by complete surprise. Once it noticed him, he said, it swam across the river, against the current, toward him.
“It came over to say ‘Hi’ basically, I guess,” said Mikolas. “I could have reached down and stroked its head if I wanted to, it was that close.
“It sat there in the water looking up at me and then it did a little spin, and gave its tail a little slap on the water and dove underwater and went downstream and disappeared. And if I didn’t have the pictures, I honestly wouldn’t have believed it happened.”
Ahh the exciting beaver encounter! With the ghost beaver! I’m so happy for him. Let’s just hope a million trappers don’t rush to this site for a chance to be the one to bag it.
Oh and another new siting today. Duncan Haley of the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research just launched his very own beaver web. Go check it out. Welcome to the ‘hood, Duncan!
