On Saturday, 12 December, Herb and I went to the Glen Canyon Park to check my trail cameras. I finally got some pictures of beavers at work!
My son, Mark, made a video from four of the best of several segments of beavers at Powers Creek. You can see the video itself here.
You will notice that all of the beavers are at work on land, one working at cutting the big cottonwood tree that I mentioned in a previous message, and the others dragging small tree trunks and branches toward the creek. None of them are just fresh up, wet and cold, out of the creek. This seems to support my idea that my failure to get pictures of beavers earlier were because the other cameras were located to photograph beavers in the creek or at creek-side, and my cameras were not being triggered by their cold bodies. Trail cameras are triggered by both body heat and movement.
You will notice that all of the beavers are at work on land, one working at cutting the big cottonwood tree that I mentioned in a previous message, and the others dragging small tree trunks and branches toward the creek. None of them are just fresh up, wet and cold, out of the creek. This seems to support my idea that my failure to get pictures of beavers earlier were because the other cameras were located to photograph beavers in the creek or at creek-side, and my cameras were not being triggered by their cold bodies. Trail cameras are triggered by both body heat and movement.
I will remember to measure the girth of the large cottonwood that they are working at cutting. The deepest notch is on the side toward the creek, and does not show in the videos. Beavers are clever engineers but they do not know in which direction their trees will fall. They just cut all around a tree with their chisel-like teeth until it falls.
Congratulations on getting dry-coated Beaver shots! Good luck with setting up your across-the-creek camera.
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