Beside the Stream

Here’s a little beaver pond that I drive by regularly.  It always looks pretty much the same to me, so my last photo there was April 18. 

The pond was there yesterday, and today it is drained.

The dam was breached and the beaver must be gone or they would have fixed it.  You can see from the height of the pond walls that this dam has been here for a long time, and you can see how it increased the complexity of the landscape.  The geese and herons in the April post won’t be here next year. 

I’ll come back with mudboots to scope out the broken dam, and in the meantime I have photos of big new beaver dams downstream, which I’ll post next week.