Leopold Kanzler is the Aaustrian photographer I greatly admire for his lintimate work with beavers and other wildlife. He posted this today on facebookTag: Leopold Kanzler
Leopold Kanzler is the Aaustrian photographer I greatly admire for his lintimate work with beavers and other wildlife. He posted this today on facebookToday I was surprised by Sylvia Steinhauer-Maresch from the Jaidhof painting circle with this beautiful drawing! — feeling grateful.
I saved three articles to write about today, and all of them are now behind a paywall so its their own fault we will never know about the tulalip relocation or the beaver problems in Quilcene, Washington. They have no one to blame but themselves.
For now we’ll have to content ourselves with this amazing photo from Leopold Kanzler, our Viennese friend who captures intimate beaver moments for his “Nature Highlights” series. This is a piece he calls “Nibbling”.
I believe Tolkien said the hobbits referred to the process as “filling up the corners“.
Image Details:
Location: Vienna
Date: 2019 08 22
Light: dusk
Camera: Canon 1dX MkII
Lens: EF200/2
Focal Length: 200 mm
Exposure: 1/250 Seconds
Aperture: 1:2,5
ISO: 1600
Time for more “Only good news Sunday” which is just right because we have a parcel of it. Yesterday our Austrian friend Leopold Kanzler posted this on FB, which I’m calling “don’t wake me” but is honestly the most adorable beaver photo I may have seen yet.
And as you know, that is saying something.
Isn’t that precious? No one thinks about the poor unsung beaver who wants to sleep in right? I happen to know these things because I’m trying to change my sleep habits in view of my 8:00 pm presentation at Audubon Thursday – gradually going to sleep later each night,. I actually woke at 7 yesterday which I haven’t done since 2006 and it made me stupid all day. I think I’ll just stay on beaver-viewing time and be sleepy like this photo for my talk. It will work better.
Other fine news comes from Sarah Koenigsberg who is on her way to the Banff Film Centre Moutain film festival in Denver with a famous guest you’ll probably recognize. I thought you’d want to see their lovely selfie, That of course is the legendary Sherri Tippie to Sarah’s left, the beaver re-locator and hairdresser extraordinaire. She is prominently featured in the film and will be attending the showing.
I met Sherri at my first ever State of the Beaver Conference and was so inspired by her presentation that I just sat in the front row and wept the entire time. After such a hard won battle with Martinez to save our beavers it was glorious to listen to someone who already knew everything I was shouting over and over. I felt like a trusted adult was finally driving the vehicle and I could just fall asleep in the back seat.
Finally there have been some lovely new donations for our upcoming auction, starting with this beautiful watercolor from Marley Ungaro of Fleming Island Florida. It’s aptly titled “Beaver Moon“, and while the subject is fairly common, the original rendition definitely is not.
Isn’t that beautiful? In addition to the print Marley added some lovely tea towels with the image to the auction. Clearly she is a kindred spirit all the way across the US. Thanks Marley!
Which brings us to another fine donation from the metal artist “Spooniere”, who amazingly makes all her jewelry 
from vintage silver spoons. Of course you can easily see why I had to come knocking on Tami Miller’s doorstep in Aurora Colorado. In addition to being beautiful, Tam’s creation is completely one-of-a-kind. No one else you ever meet will have a beaver ring like this because none exists. Thanks Tami!
Leopold Kanzler lives in Austria and has taken some of my very favorite beaver photos. In addition to being hugely talented, he is wildly patient and animals just seem to get comfortable around him. Check out his newest offering.
Time is ticking down. The other day I was browsing for information about Ben Goldfarb’s book coming out and was surprised to find an event already logged at the San Francisco Book Passage. It’s so wild to think about his message of beaver benefits making its way across the country.
I think his head must be spinning a little too because he posted this on facebook yesterday.
SAN FRANCISCO on June 26 PORTLAND on July 2 BOSTON on July 31
=June 25: Healdsburg SHED, Healdsburg CA, 7:30 pm
-June 26: Book Passage, San Francisco CA, 6 pm
-June 27: Science Buzz Cafe, Sebastopol CA, 7 pm
-June 28: Screening of Sarah Koenigsberg‘s wonderful documentary “The Beaver Believers,” Empress Theatre, Vallejo CA (I’ll be on a panel after the film).
-June 29: Copperfield’s Books, San Rafael CA, 7 pm
-June 30: Martinez Beaver Festival, Martinez CA, 1:30 pm
-July 2: Powell’s on Hawthorne, Portland OR, 7:30 pm
-July 3: West Linn Public Library, West Linn OR, 6 pm
-July 18: Yale-Myers Forest Seminar, Eastford CT, 7 pm
-July 20: Northshire Books, Manchester Center VT, 6 pm
-July 26: RJ Julia Booksellers, Madison CT, 7 pm
-July 31: Harvard Bookstore, Cambridge MA, 7 pm
-August 1: Tin Mountain Conservation Center, Conway NH, 7 pm
-August 2: Ridgefield Public Library, Ridgefield CT, 7 pm
-August 3: Litchfield County Summer Book Fair, Sharon CT, 5 pm
-August 4: David M. Hunt Library, Falls Village CT, 1 pm
That’s the kind of schedule that has you living out of a suitcase and eating cereal. It’s so wonderful that Ben is young and strong and up to the task! Can you imagine how many new beaver friends there will be in 6 months? I was especially startled to see the book is even available for pre-order at Target!
All I can say is that if folks don’t get the idea THIS SUMMER that beavers matter – what with Ben’s book and Sarah’s film and our festival – there is literally no hope for them.
Now we just need a huge donor to buy copies for every member of CDFW – and force them to read it.
It’s Sunday! Time for two great photos and some very good news! The first is from Austria’s Leopold Kanzler who has taken amazing photographs of beavers for years and is credited with many of my favorites. He just announced he is winning second place in a wildlife photo contest for this:
I think the courage necessary to hold very still under that particular tree deserves first place, don’t you?
I’ll share the second photo later, but for now let’s appreciate this sunny article about the beaver dams at Amy’s park, shall we?
Outdoors: Busy beavers unsung heroes at Amy’s Park
I’ve been oohing and aahing over beaver dams lately. There’s just something about them — maybe the feat of engineering achieved by a furry creature with a big tail and some really tough teeth, or the dams’ remarkable ability to reshape the landscape — that wows me every time!
We saw our most recent beaver dam at Amy’s Park in Bolton Landing.
The uneven little parking lot for the 500-acre preserve had just a single car in it when we pulled in around lunchtime one weekend. We set off along a woodsy trail under an overcast sky, stopping at a rocky outcrop to admire the view over a pond. We eventually hiked all the way around the preserve’s two ponds, finding a beaver lodge and numerous gnawed stumps.
The conservancy deserves a lot of credit for its work to protect the big lake. But I think we need to give the beavers a hand, too. Without them, there would be no ponds at Amy’s Park. The conservancy protects wetlands, but the busy beavers are the original architects of those environmental filtering systems.
Nicely put, Gillian Scott of the Time Union. We agree that beaver dams are a constant WOW. Thanks for the nicely written reminder. I assume you’re a friend of Beavers: Wetlands and Wildlife which isn’t far away. New Yorkers who care about beavers have to stick together. Speaking of which this ran recently in the New Yorker and of course has to be shared.
Ha! Now for the REALLY good news. We have been noticing that the water in the creek at Susana street is ponded up again, and that little visible dam has been nicely rebuilt. Yesterday we heard from two sources that they saw beavers in the area. One is our friend whose back deck opens up to the creek, and she took this with her phone on Friday. Hopefully she’ll get us more soon.
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