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Today's nature video

reible

Bet those birds wished they had headed of to Florida after yesterdays storms. 70 MPH wind gusts, small hail, sheets of rain and going from the 70's to below freezing....

So today I went to visit the beaver dams again to see how they fared with the storms. The small down stream dam has water flowing over it pretty much its whole width.

The larger dam has a breach but not all that bad.

If I can I would like to go back tomorrow and see if they fixed it over night.

Ed

rogersk

It will be interesting to see how they fix the big dam, and if they make any changes to the smaller dam––or just wait for the water to go down.

reible

Got back to the beaver dam today. I'm really not sure if the beavers have made some repairs of if the water level has dropped some after peaking after the rain. I learned that the beavers leave a place where the water can over run just in case, thus saving the rest of the dam. A slush gate if you will.

December 1 through April 1 the park closes. You can still access the trails but the parking lot is gated so you have to walk in from other locations. The longer walk doesn't mean much to me but perhaps less people around will prompt the beavers to be a little active during daylight hours.

So here is the link to the most recent video, enjoy.

Ed

Ed in Tampa

I do not know about anyone else but I really enjoy your photos!

reible

This weeks nature video is a bit of game in that I will not tell you what you are watching but you get to guess or expose what it is. If no one gets it in a few days I will expose the truth.

Ed

rpd

I think it is the moon, reflected in water.

JPG

I think you are correct! Daytime moon as well?

reible

I really didn't think someone would get this so quickly! Good eye!

Later today I will post some pictures of a beaver house, this one on a lake. Yes beavers do live on lakes and don't all make dams. Still have not seen any beavers at the dams or at the lake but they have to be there.

Ed

reible

A few days back there were two trucks and a couple of guys with implements of dam destruction there. I ask if they were going to take the dam out and they indicated that was their intention. I gave a few words, polity of how I wished that was not going to be. Then walked on, thinking on my return a week or so later that there would be no dam. As you can see the dam is still there, for how long I don't know. Why it was not destroyed on that day, well don't know that either.

Anyway life goes on.

Ed

reible

I had mentioned that I located a beaver lodge on a near by lake. Now I know that this is common beaver behavior but some folks may not be familiar with this. Here are a few pictures, a couple of them are right at the sight and another from across the way. Again the house is not likely to be there for long as beavers have a tough life around here, the authorities don't seem to get the benefits but only see the worst. And yes I know that there are cases where and places that beavers just can't be tolerated, but where they can then they should be left alone. Often they soon run out of food so they self regulate in that respect, no food, no place to live so you move on.

reible

Beaver dam busters have been busy. The dam now has an opening and water is flowing through.

I have to walk in from another park now, well as of December 1, and that walk is upstream so as soon as I got to the stream I knew the dam had been breached. Not that I have great powers of fore knowledge but the stream bank says it all.

Pretty easy to see the former water level where the ice formed and where the water level is now.

Video is processing of what the dam looks like now. Will post the link when it is finished.

reible

Here is the link:

Ed

Ed in Tampa

You should check out Lumnah Acres channel the maker of this channel just bought 500 acres in New Hampshire. He has been fighting Beavers since the start. Apparently they want to build their dam in areas that will flood out his access roads. In the linked video he visits two abandoned areas that hold old dams and Beaver lodges.

reible

Stressed out? Maybe it time to check these three babbling streams videos. They are all short so it might be a less then you need so feel free to watch them over a few times.'

Ed

nuhobby

These are nice! thank you

I had a walk-about lately; my picture is modest. But as a woodworker it's fascinating. The town has a number of buckled-up sidewalk slabs that have been "beveled down" by a tool or method I don't yet know. Looks like something done with a precision router-sled or jointer-plane at an angle or even a compound angle, but it's on concrete!

Chris

Ed in Tampa

nuhobby wrote These are nice! thank you

I had a walk-about lately; my picture is modest. But as a woodworker it's fascinating. The town has a number of buckled-up sidewalk slabs that have been "beveled down" by a tool or method I don't yet know. Looks like something done with a precision router-sled or jointer-plane at an angle or even a compound angle, but it's on concrete!

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Chris

In our area this is done to the side walks using a large angle grinder and diamond or carbide grinding wheel. The user patterns the grinding.

rpd

nuhobby wrote These are nice! thank you

I had a walk-about lately; my picture is modest. But as a woodworker it's fascinating. The town has a number of buckled-up sidewalk slabs that have been "beveled down" by a tool or method I don't yet know. Looks like something done with a precision router-sled or jointer-plane at an angle or even a compound angle, but it's on concrete!

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Chris

They would have used a concrete grinder, something similar to the one in this video.

reible

Interesting walk today.

The beaver dams, have now been attacked by what I'm guessing was a backhoe. The big dam for sure as I could see the tracks, smaller dam might have been done by hand??

Anyway the navigation way is now open for all to pass.

So I'm going to give you links to 6 new videos that I shot today and up loaded. Various subject matter so check them out and see if you can find a favorite.

If you like sandhill cranes then at least watch the last one.

Ed

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