[This is the Catch of the Day message originally sent out by email on November 26, 2015. During this slack time of year as to getting out and collecting new nature photographs, I am spending some time going through past Catches and transporting some of them to this newly set up blog.]

On Monday, I visited the three trail cameras that I have in Glen Canyon Park. The cameras at the creek crossings have been busy. Several pictures were taken of deer as they crossed the creek.

The others show a family of raccoons, one swimming in the creek, the others at a fallen log bridge.

 The beavers are still actively falling trees and building dams, although I cannot see the value of the dams, as the low banks of the creek will not allow them to raise the water level appreciably. Complete ice cover is quite temporary, usually lasting only for brief periods in the winter, and I doubt that the beavers will be able to travel under the ice. Perhaps they will prove me wrong. In the ten plus year that I have been regularly visiting this part of Powers Creek, beavers have only been transient or short-time visitors.