Watching Beavers

We really enjoy taking evening walks while the days are still long. Although we sometimes walk the Crown Point Bridge, our outings usually end up being along the La Chute River. The pond at the base of the first falls has one huge beaver lodge and another smaller one a few yards away.

These are active lodges and the past few times we have walked the trail, we have seen several beavers of all sizes. What fun it has been watching them swim with branches from other areas of the pond and then dive down into the entrance of their lodge. It brought back memories of the beavers we had at our property on the Indian Kill many years ago.

It is great to see these animals thriving in an area where they don't need to be disrupted or disturbed, and yet people can watch them in their natural habitat from afar.