Beaver Pond

We went for our daily walk. We have two routes, one takes us on the south end of the lake, down to the Lake Charley creek, which was pouring over the dam and quite high. There have been carp, suckers and walleyes in the creek.

The other route is to the north, to the end of Bedman Drive and then through the path to Oakridge Road. It passes a beaver pond and today it was a great place to stop and look and listen. The neighborhood wild turkeys were busy talking to each other. The beavers have really been thriving in the wetlands that run along the west side of this part of Lake Ida, and have cut down whatever is a soft wood, birch, poplar, willows. Oaks they don't seem to touch, so that explains why we have all these wonderful oak trees in the neighborhood and not too much else. Many decades of beavers choosing their food. There were still fresh signs of trees that had been cut down during the winter - newly gnawed wood, and the sap rising in the stumps today. The beaver lodge is on the left of the photo.