Guess what month it is? February. And what is it that happens in February from a strictly beaver point of view? Oh that’s right. Ten years of living with beavers teaches us what happens in the west: DISPERSAL!
Beaver holds up traffic for ten minutes on Princeton bridge
Groundhog Day was February 2.
However, for at least one local man, the first day of the month was The Day of The Beaver.
Jim Dixon, and several other motorists, were held up at Princeton’s Brown Bridge for approximately ten minutes Saturday morning by a beaver who was taking its sweet time crossing the river.
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Dixon.
Well. maybe not Dixon, but we have. Thank goodness folks were content to slow down and snap photos. Beavers and roadways are a notoriously bad combination. Think about how annoyed that poor beaver will be when he realizes all this effort just brought him right back to the same dam river he thought he left behind.
You will recognize the presenter in this fine video from our Scottish friends.
All I can say is they have some DAM fine trees in Scotland! That is Louise Ramsay and her daughter, Sophie, singing at the end. I think this is on their estate in Bamff. What a beautiful slice of nature they steward!
A friend re-posted this recently and I thought I had died and went to heaven.
