Tonight I had a call from the police station saying that they had a report of a dead adult beaver out by the pier. They had called Bob Cellini at city staff and he had told them to call me (thanks, Bob). The beaver was apparently in the water, recently enough dead to be still dropping blood when animal control picked him up, but our homeless said they had seen him there since the fourth. Linda and Moses were quickly on the scene, even before I received a similar call from Luigi saying that the woman who had reported the beaver to the police was in his store. We know the dead beaver can’t be mom because its tail was unscarrred.
So far tonight we have seen four new kits, both adults and for sure one yearling. Last night we saw the smaller yearling chewing on blackberries again, so that’s all our cast of characters. It appears unlikely that this beaver was ours, since it was so far upstream. Stay tuned for updates, but it looks like a grim reminder that Beavers are everywhere and if we relocate ours, new ones will come to fill their place.
Thanks officer and Bob and Luigi for making sure the information came my way.
