This weekend down in CT was like a summer visit: warm temps and sunny skies. On a walk down to the Ice Pond, we found some red-breasted merganser ducks meandering about.
About a month ago, we saw from the house deck, a contingent of crows checking out the newly constructed property across the street (see image below)
The outlet stream from the dammed beaver bog that runs along our southern border continues to be a battleground between the town road crew and this year’s beaver insurgents.
We have discovered a reason for the continued and persistent assault on the culvert under our road. Here is a beaver den constructed about 100 yards or so upstream from the culvert underpass. In order to make this a working structure, the water level needs to be several feet higher than what you see here.
The beavers need to get the culvert blocked about 80% to obtain the preferred water level, such as you see here.
The beavers also have resurrected several dams they used to have along the stream between the bog and the road culvert. This was 20 years or so ago. I remember counting 7 to 9 dams at the time. Today there are four or so, as shown here:
