2026
April 6 – The lodges Barry Beaver ✎
April 12 – Barry Beaver's Work (and ours!) ✎
April 21 – Barry beaver update✎ in snow, trees down.
April 19/23 – ICE, phoebe, Barry beaver✎
May 19/20 – Barry Beaver busywork✎, two more trees down
June 23 – spotted him 📹
June 24 – took down a sapling✎, tail slap no visuals.
July 1 – Big storm took down a lot of Barry's half-felled trees.
July 25 – Saw him again✎.
July 29 – Aussie Tree care cleared the path✎for me. Barrie didn't come back for a month.
Sept. 11 – Chewed a large limb.
Oct. 6 – started up again✎. Oak trees
Oct. 8 – the aspen grove ✎7 saplings
Oct. 12 – 6 more saplings (blog photos), hauled across to the wetland 📹.
Oct. 14 – timberrrrrr!
Oct. 26 – more trees down.✎
Oct. 28 – TWO beavers, meet Brenda ✎ – TWO beavers
Oct. 29 – Forest damage and more ✎
Oct. 30 – Took down a sapling 📹
Nov. 1 – a transportation system📹, as they dig out canals.
Nov. 2 – birch tree falls✎
Britannica says beavers are primarily nocturnal, I've read. They can get up to 16 - 50 kg (110 lbs.). They are the largest rodents in North America.
| Nov., 2009 in Bala. |
I snapped a photo of one in the sunset on Long Lake, back in the day. April, 2008.
2025
- Sept., 2025 – I saw some signs, but it appears to move on after the drought.
- Nov. 23 – I found more signs in November: Busy as a beaver, lots of trees down. 📹
- Nov. 24th – Spotted it as well as coyote tracks.
- Nov. 26 – the lodge, and my map. Video of it on land 📹.
- Nov. 27 – new map, beaver trees, coyote visitor.
- Nov. 29 – He's having a grand time!
- Dec. 2 – leaning tree
Two videos of said tree: part 1 | part 2 Going to have them chopped down.
Canoodling on a beaver dam pond - under blue skies!! (Bala, Muskoka, Ontario)




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