- Just feel like showing you where we found this beaver.
- NOT on our property and as Fabby's Living wrote: 'I just love how the beaver just posed for your camera...so adorable!!' Sorry Fabby, but that beaver did no longer pose, it was dead.
- Guess that TexWisGirl and The Smart Cat were right about this beaver having been a flood casualty.
- It sure was not killed by car as Madelief suggested. As I already stated right at the top; it was dead but no wounds, nothing.
- Johanna from Silber-und-Rosen-Shop did mention that I'd never mentioned this beaver in our wood garden. At least we have NEVER EVER seen any beaver damage but it lived just around the corner from our street, near the big pond. Our creek runs through that pond, underneath the road.
- There is another creek a bit further and at its banks more or less we found this beaver on the side of the road. Probably got washed out of his house! We did have some 18" or 45.7 cm of rain in a couple of days!!!
- So please look at this Aerial photo that I took from bing.com
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| Bing.com aerial view |
- The blue dot is wrongly placed by Bing and by Google.
- But in red, at the top of this aerial view, I have marked and pointed at our home.
- Below the red words 'Our Home>', you find the BIG pond and a bit further where another creek runs, through a wooded area with a lot of trees, that's where we found this beaver! Where the arrow (chevron) points.
Hope this does clarify that it was NOT on our property. Thanks for your time and yes, nature is amazing, especially for both of us coming from such a densily populated country like The Kingdom of The Netherlands! We treasure this property and hope we can manage to stay here for a long time to come.
- With all the raging water through our creek and the big pond where the creek is feeding into, we did notice this beaver on the side of the road.
- Husband Pieter did take some photos of it.
- Quite impressive in size; over 35" or 89 cm!
- We learned that their weight is from 28 to 70 lb or 13 to 32 kg.
- Their tail alone measures over 10" or 25 cm.
- This one was dead, but I still love to show it; no wounds, nothing.
- It measures over 35" or 89 cm as that is the total length of this yard stick.
- You see husband Pieter's shoe, just for comparison...
- This one probably weighed around 30 lb or 13.6 kg.
- Check out the two links below this post for more info about their amazing consumption of 200 trees annually! They are HARD workers and also can do lots of damage.
- The tail alone is 10" or 25 cm long!
- Look at its feet...
- Great fur too...
- Would make a nice Russian Hat!
- Here you very clearly see its foot and the large 10"+ tail...
- Face is not really visible but it has tiny ears...
- Have you ever encountered a beaver in your area?
Related links:
- Just a couple of days ago I did quickly read dear friend Celia M. High Heeled Life & Resilientista's post from the blog: HighHeeledLife ~ Invitation to a Special Tea...
- Due to our water problem I had to wait before using it into a post for helping her out.
- Celia did spend some of her childhood years in Portugal and thus knows the language.
- Naturally she is very familiar with Portuguese and this is what Celebrate LOVE is all about.
- Postmarked as late as April 1, you can send you cards to the above address in Tennessee, USA.
- They will forward them to Brazil to young girls that got abandoned and abused.
- Sending them some love from far away, make them feel special and cared for.
- To help you out with Portuguese sentences to write on your card look below:
- Trusting that you will look for cards that you maybe already have, or creating your very own, let us reach out by sending some warm thoughts across the ocean.
THANK YOU!
