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Bob's Fall Journal: November 8 to 10, 2004
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Monday, March 9, 2015. November 8 to 10, 2004. November 8 yesterday we made a very brief stop at the land. The Deep Pond dam still leaks and I think the beaver pushed a little more mud up on the dam. No sign of its eating anything along the dam, no characteristic nibbled sticks. I assume that as a newcomer, it might be frightened. Meanwhile up in the poplar groove above the First Pond, the large poplar that had but a few nibbles was about to be cut down. Here is a paper on beavers and white oaks, there o...
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Bob's Spring Journal: Jul 16, 2012
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Monday, July 16, 2012. May 4 to 11, 2012. Not very effective, but they are working on it. On April 27 that spur of the dam looked rather meek. On the parts of the dam where they customarily push up mud, it was hard to judge what was recent because the whole dam looked damp from leaking the recent rains. They also put leafless shrub branches on top of the dam. In the middle of the dam they pushed up some well leaved honeysuckle branches that they cut. I wish we had noticed the flowers when they were bloom...
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Bob's Spring Journal: Jan 25, 2014
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Saturday, January 25, 2014. May 11 to 19, 2003. It also started sprinkling so I moved down to the dam to check for otter scat and there were three squirts - and I mark the area on the photo with the red circle. There was a spray of black scat to one side, a gray green scat in the middle, and another spray of black scat on the other side. And in the woods I enjoyed a horizontal shadbush tree with suckers full of blooms shooting straight up. It was sprinkling harder when I reached the knoll overlooking the...
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Bob's Spring Journal: Feb 16, 2014
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Sunday, February 16, 2014. June 17 to 24, 2003. Where they did succeed in finding turtle eggs. Then I sat for 10 or 15 minutes watching the East Trail Pond,. And saw nothing stirring, except an oriole behind me. Somewhat surprising not seeing a beaver that early in the morning. It also had another small pond connecting and a relatively new lodge right where the ponds connect. But, there was no otter scat, and so I can't be sure that otters came to the East Trail Pond via this route. On my way home I ...
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Bob's Winter Journal: A Still Point Below the Blow and Bother of Winter: March 12 & 22, 2015
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Thursday, April 2, 2015. A Still Point Below the Blow and Bother of Winter: March 12 and 22, 2015. We had to wait for a cold sunny morning after a brief thaw so that the snow would be icy enough to walk on. We were still on snowshoes. The snow in the woods is up to three feet deep. On a cold sunny morning after a brief thaw beaver ponds can begin to look rather basic. On the morning of March 12 the Lost Swamp Pond seemed to be losing it pretenses. But the most convincing evidence that the otters were sti...
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Bob's Spring Journal: Feb 21, 2014
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Friday, February 21, 2014. June 25 to 30, 2003. Is it possible only one otter in the group of four marks? Or is this the scat of a resident otter who has more or less been there all spring? They were on the opposite shore of the pond, their reddish fur bathed in the light of the setting sun. As well as butter and eggs, cinquefoil, and on the ridge above the meadow this elderberry bush with berries. Though there's still plenty of room for a beaver to maneuver in. Behind the dam was a fine collection o...
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Bob's Fall Journal: 12/4/11 - 12/11/11
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Sunday, December 4, 2011. November 25 to 27, 2011. November 25 it warmed up again today. All the snow and ice melted which seemed to make the Deep Pond dam leak. We had 2 inches of wet snow preceded by a quarter inch of ice. The green grasses that grew up at the end of the summer on the last of the pond bottom exposed as the pond water drained through the hole in the dam was getting flooded once again. And I saw where the beaver ignored the larger branches of a honeysuckle for smaller nips. Then I got to...
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Bob's Fall Journal: 1/20/13 - 1/27/13
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013. December 1 to 6, 2003. On clumps of grass just out of the water. All the times I had seen otters on the lodge, I didn't notice them scatting in the grass behind the lodge. Again, I don't think any of the scat was from today, but certainly much was from the last week as I could still see the bones and guts distinctly. They also cut and began segmenting a thin white oak. Some of this scat was wet fresh and probably from today or late yesterday. Down at the upper second swamp da...
