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A beaver's instinct (lemmy.today)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by DearMoogle to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
 
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[–] Anne@lemmy.world 80 points 2 months ago (8 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

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 3 points 1 month 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

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