We know that the beavers moved in because of their nighttime handiwork.
and it’s pretty easy to see where they’re staying. It’s a streamside burrow with two entrances that they live in until they build their dam, fill their pond and build a lodge. It’s their starter home.
The main entrance is right in front of you, made of peeled branches woven together.
The other side of the same pile shows a second entrance, while the beaver’s backdoor route is all the way over by the pile of peeled sticks at the far end of the bench of soil. There’s likely an underwater entrance on this end, and a series of underground rooms dug from here to that far pile.
This is the back door entrance on the far end of the bench, with an underwater entrance on the far end as well. The beaver’s first rule of home construction is: always have an alternate exit. Some animals fight off intruders, but beavers build a back door instead.
This pair is in a streamside burrow for now, but they have big plans. At night they’re consumed with construction problems, but during the day when they sleep they might dream of their dam and a litter of kits. Of the day when they have a proper lodge in their own pond.
This might be the beaver’s dream.
(This lovely illustration is from a book written by the Islamic scholar Harun Yahya titled Devotion Among Animals: revealing the work of God Ch.2 Awareness in Animals: One of the dead ends of the theory of evolution, Fig 5.) (I’ve gotten in trouble for using this illustration in lectures because people assume that I must renounce evolution to read antievolution tracts, but honestly, I’ll read anything.)
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