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[–] Anne@lemmy.world 80 points 4 days ago (3 children)

A beaver (or beavers?) moved into the creek deep in the woods behind my house last fall, and I am SO excited about the beautiful pond they are building.

Photo of a newly built beaver damn, made of many small branches, truly a feat of animal engineering

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 36 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Where can I subscribe to regular updates on their progress?

[–] Anne@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

View of a newly formed pond, with nearly knee-deep standing water and clear borders where the beavers have put in hard work

We've had a couple good rains, transforming what used to be a muddy creekbed into a clearly defined pond!

A thick tree with ambitious beaver gnaw marks all around the base. Not quite deep enough to fell the tree, but they'll get through it eventually

[–] Anne@lemmy.world 33 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I will report back in a few weeks with more pictures! Also will probably be spamming them all over Lemmy because I just cannot shut up about how cool they are 😅

[–] oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 4 days ago

They got plans and I am in love with them

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I LOVE beaver dams! And you get to observe how the ecosystem changes over time. I'm mad jealous.

There's one by the Navy base trails, but the little fuckers built a new one upstream that you can't see from the official path. But you can still clearly see how the entire area changed into a pond/swamp. There's another by my camp, but I can't get there anymore without dire "PRIVATE PROPERTY" signs having gone up.

[–] Anne@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

It's definitely getting swampy after a couple rainstorms, there's almost knee-deep standing water in some parts!

Beautiful wetlands that are slowly developing into a beaver pond. Sections of standing water punctuated by big bushy plants with bright yellow flowers

[–] Anne@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Yes! The ecosystem changes are what I'm most excited about. Not so much the mosquito swarms the next year or two, but once the rest of the food chain moves in it'll be wonderful! I have seen a heron a couple times in the swampier parts of the creekbed and if he becomes a consistent visitor to the area I'll be over the moon.