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Beaver Dams, Ponds, Lodges and Ingenuity: Bob Arnebeck's Essays on Beavers: Beavers Gnaw and Dig Their Way Up My Valley
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Beaver Dams, Ponds, Lodges and Ingenuity: Bob Arnebeck's Essays on Beavers. Thursday, January 31, 2013. Beavers Gnaw and Dig Their Way Up My Valley. On August 23, 2007, I was so enthralled by what I saw that I wrote a poem about it:. The cut winterberry, a dozen inch wide stumps. Fingering out of the moss draped roots snaking over. The black bottom of the now dry bog, pointed. The way, fifty yards through ferns, under barbed wire,. Over poplar stumps rotting dark grey. The duckweed. During the day as I w...
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Excrements of Curiosity: Did a Raven Read My Mind?
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Friday, October 8, 2010. Did a Raven Read My Mind? After my wife and I bought 52 acres of wild land,. We soon noticed that we were not alone. We often saw huge flocks of ravens over head. We soon learned that one neighboring farmer was also a butcher and too often dumped his waste in a neighboring ravine. We didn't appreciate that, but it did attract the ravens which we soon saw were engaging birds to watch especially when they pair off and perform indescribable aerial dances. It would not take anything ...
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Beaver Dams, Ponds, Lodges and Ingenuity: Bob Arnebeck's Essays on Beavers: Beavers and Otters Learn to Get Along
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Beaver Dams, Ponds, Lodges and Ingenuity: Bob Arnebeck's Essays on Beavers. Thursday, January 17, 2013. Beavers and Otters Learn to Get Along. Extinction ends the evolution of a species. Does near extinction undo co-evolution? With so few otters and beavers, did they lose their innate sense of how to co-exist? In April the beavers patched the huge hole saving their pond. In February 1997 I saw that otters dug two holes through Otter Hole Pond. In April the beavers patched it again. Now and then I took ph...
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Excrements of Curiosity: Less Tanks, More Apple Pie: two encounters with Pete Seeger
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014. Less Tanks, More Apple Pie: two encounters with Pete Seeger. There is something pure about an obituary: facts, garnished with quotes, sprinkled with commonly held assumptions about the obituated's influence, and when it is a non-operatic singer in question, most to the point is how Bob Dylan was influenced, though to be sure, the phrase "influenced Bob Dylan" is all that can be said because who the hell really knows. Mika liked Leslie because she was a good artist and hard work...
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Beaver Dams, Ponds, Lodges and Ingenuity: Bob Arnebeck's Essays on Beavers: Death of a Beaver
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Beaver Dams, Ponds, Lodges and Ingenuity: Bob Arnebeck's Essays on Beavers. Thursday, January 19, 2012. Death of a Beaver. There was no mistaking what happened. Double murder. The beaver killed the tree. The tree fell on the beaver. I've seen a thousand trees cut down by beavers. I never saw this before. The beaver must have died instantly. The trunk was hard and square on its head. When we came back to see the beaver the second day, we noticed that the other beavers - well, what could they do? So almost...
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Animal Misbehavior: April 2011
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Wild Animals Don't Always Behave the Way Books Say They Do. Tuesday, April 12, 2011. Otters can swim faster than beavers; otters have flesh tearing teeth. And beavers are vegetarians;. And most of the books you pick up about the two animals announce that otters are predators of beavers. So it is obvious, when they are in the same pond, a beaver doesn't want to get in the way of an otter. No one told the beavers all that. Kept snorting at me off and on, but also groomed itself! To find sticks to nibble.
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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 Fall Journal: 1/6/13 - 1/13/13
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013. October 18 to 31, 1997. I wrote this in January 2013 based on hand written notes, videos and photos taken in October 1997, as well as my memory. Saturday I went out with Ottoleo. He saw some animals high on the ridge across from where we always sit at Otter Hole pond when we are waiting for otters. We couldn't decide what they were although there were at least three of them. Otters? Did not look like raccoons with such black fur. Meanwhile no otters appeared in the pond. I hav...
