June 2009 Cheryl Reynolds
Remember Mom’s tail notch? How’s this for a reminder that even though things seem really bad right now they sometimes get better? Looks like mom’s tail is almost completely regrown.
June 2006 Robert Rust
I’m glad for her, but it was one of the things I selfishly appreciated most. It’s so comforting to recognize her in a beaver “crowd”, although right now her eye is so swollen you hardly need to see the tail.
As I told Cheryl, lets hope some of those white blood cells migrate to her eye and kick the crap outta that condition, whatever it is.
Contact from LB last night that water was pouring into the upper side of the dam from under the platform where we stand. She wondered if there was a pipe broken or something. Jon & I went to check this morning and saw no gushing water, but noted that the two sides of the primary day were looking more equal. Some back story. For the past months we’ve been noticing then when you are at the dam, sometimes you see a muskrat dive at the downside of the dam, and then suddenly appear at the upside of the dam, coming out of the little cove where the beavers feed under the standing area. As we’ve watched the level slipping on the main pond, we figured it was going through this “muskrat tunnel” and pouring down to the second pond. Well it looks like with the help of the tides 2 finally surpassed 1 and the water was flowing UP into the first pond last night.
I’m not complaining. They need more water and they must know what they’re doing leaving that muskrat tunnel unfilled…
