Video of Beaver at work

On Saturday, when I visited the trail camera that I have monitoring a large cottonwood tree in Glen Valley Park, I found over 100 paired 10 second videos and still photos of beaver at work on the big tree. Mark has edited several of the videos and made a longer, but still short, video, which can be seen by either clicking on the image below, or on this link:  https://youtu.be/OOxK2zg6BMY

I measured the tree, placing my tape just above the beaver cut. It is 102 inches in circumference, which translates to 32 inches in diameter. Cutting such a large tree is a daunting task for beavers. I have been assuming that there are several beavers but to date, I have photographic evidence of only one. I will try to keep a camera at this tree, monitoring the beavers’ work, until the tree falls, or the beaver give up.

Lars.