Beaver?

[noee]

So, our neighbor down the hill has a small pond and we've noticed that two trees (about 6" diameter) have been "eaten" down into the pond and something is working on a third tree.

I've been reading about Beavers, but this pond is small and it seems weird that a Beaver would be here in the "foothills". Could it be otters? I've read that otters will also take down small trees and we have a fairly healthy otter population in the area.

If it is a Beaver, it appears that it could do some damage around the pond, anyone have up-close and personal experience with Beavers? Should I make Beaver-Tail soup?

Seriously here, I'm talking about the animal we call Beaver

 

[galen216]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faueBMiceHo

 

[galen216]

On a serious note, you have game cameras, set one up.

 

[kk88rrc]

Be careful.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Pv2_sc4kQ

 

[BaldEagle]

we shoot beavers all the time because of their shenanigans. load up.

 

[brianhoberg]

Just pop 'em. When I was younger I was all about beaver. I'd hit it any way I could. I nailed a lot of beavers in my day. Some looked good and sadly, some looked sick. Now that I'm older, I'm dammed and have settled with one beaver

Just shoot the beavers causing trouble. they are more destructive than productive, kinda like Congress.

 

[Blue]

I grew up playing and experimenting with beavers. Eventually you'll have to take them out - they are incredibly industrious and they will soon make a thriving city out of that small pond.

 

[stolenheron]

beaver are all over. there are even beaver in florida in some parts.

but all sorts of rodents can chew down trees. nutria and muskrat will chew down smaller trees, they aren't nearly as good of lumber jacks as beavers though.

a much better beaver.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-o8TDAElIw&feature=related

 

[apg]

As a real estate appraiser, I've seen beaver damage in some pretty unusual places - and the beaver population here in Virginia seems to be expanding to places previously unheard of. Property managers tend to take a mighty dim view of the animal's work, like when they start felling trees on a golf course. The owner of an airport I was appraising was a bit more pro-active: he used dynamite to 'discourage' beavers who were repeatedly plugging up drainage culverts. The dynamite didn't work....

 

[D Chapman]

Do Muskrats eat trees?

Sniper that bitch, Mike.

 

[DiscoS2]

I grew up playing and experimenting with beavers....

I just love playing with beaver.

 

[Blue]

What you do is get a pickaxe and chew a hole in one of their dams. They will sense the falling water level and come out to repair the hole. The beavers I knew had absolutely no fear of humans so I could just stand there and observe them repairing the dam at my feet. Eventually I employed this method, along with a pistol, to thin out their herds a bit. The problem is that they will keep expanding the ponds. At the point where we decided we had to kill some of them they had network of 9 (yes, nine!) stepped dams ringing 3 sides of a massive pond that was probably over 10 feet deep in the middle. They must have inundated about 40 or 50 acres and there were 8 or 9 lodges in the pond. They had also migrated to a man-made fishing pond about a half mile away on the property and they plugged up the overflow culvert. At the original big pond they had started with a tiny runoff creek that also had a few small springs. The average flow was like having your garden hose on low trickle. It's incredible what these little buggers can accomplish.

 

[brianhoberg]

he used dynamite to 'discourage' beavers who were repeatedly plugging up drainage culverts.

Suggest napalm or thermite

 

[noee]

Busy little sons-a-guns, these pesky beavers. Man, this could turn out to be fun.

This thing is definitely a beaver, look at the size of that white oak he's currently working on. I was zoomed in across the pond, about 200ft from it. I think I got a pic of his do-do.

DiscoS2, that's my all-time favorite..............thing........ :rofl:

 

[D Chapman]

Is this Rogers pond?

How the hell does a Beaver end up on Pig Mtn?

 

[Ol'Drippy]

A couple sticks of this should take care of your problem

http://www.maxam-na.com/pdfs/MX 440 TDS_.pdf

 

[quick128]

Is this Rogers pond?

How the hell does a Beaver end up on Pig Mtn?

That's what I was wondering. There are some good sized ponds out that way. Maybe it moved from one of those.

 

[Two Cold Soakers]

That's what I was wondering. There are some good sized ponds out that way. Maybe it moved from one of those.

Yea,

A buck beaver will grow up and set out on his own if things get too crowded at the home waters.

They'll go miles, preferring watercourses, but will follow road ditches, burrow under fences, and travel over dale.

They tend to be nocturnal around people.

Check your game laws before unstrapping the nine. They are protected furbearers, and may require a nuisance permit to trap/kill. But get on it, cause they reproduce like rabbits.

Factoid - The beaver is North America's largest rodent.

 

[Blue]

I thought Garrett was North America's largest rodent?

 

[noee]

Is this Rogers pond?

How the hell does a Beaver end up on Pig Mtn?

Yeah, that's what I'm talkin' 'bout. We've seen it all up here, except for cougar, but I never expected to have a beaver. But, less than a mile away are two very good sized ponds and we know there are otters all over there.

And, there are reasonable waterways to travel from those ponds up the "mountain" here, so I bet that is where they came from.

Next thing you know, we'll have wolves.