Last night all four kits were in grand display at the footbridge, and we made a few delightful discoveries. One kit ducked under water near the second dam, where we’ve been seeing a little intriguing action. Then a young man noticed he “popped” out on the other side into the waterway dug by the flood plain work. He had a tunnel through the levy, and another exit near the footbridge where he emerged to check out the food his brothers were enjoying. Then he crossed over the packing material left by the city, obviously appreciating the ready-made dam.
This is good news because our beavers will need somewhere to hide out during next week’s horrors, and if they’ve already started a tunnel in that scrap of unloved land, maybe they can expand it into temporary housing. Today’s farmers market had a host of beaver support, ($120.00 in donations) and some intriguing conversations. Including the reporter from the LA times (!) and the Castro street resident who saw fish & game inspecting the creek earlier and asked why. He was told there were two dead dear in the creek from a probable Mountain Lion up behind the adult school. Hear that beavers? Stay down stream!
The highlight of last night though had to be the beaver-lovin’ family with young children who came down to see the animals, bearing a tiny beaver toy that made chewing noises. We thought that was cute enough but our hearts were melted when their daughter turned around and we saw she was wearing her lovingly preserved beaver tail from the from the festival in August. Cheryl asked permission to take this photo:
When we expressed our delight, she marched us out to the street where she had placed this handmade sign:
“Leave the beavers aloooooonnnnnnnnnnne”. Hmmm, anyone wanna make that video?
Ohhh PS, my computer tells me this is the 292 post on the web page. Lets hope when we get to 300 we still have beavers.
