The Beavers in my garden...or almost!

[Christophe]

As I pointed out a few days ago in this thread gardening / fast-growing-plant-in-a-garden-to-have-the-equivalent-of-0-5-a-1-stere-of-wood-per-year-t17079.html I have beavers that killed me some poplar planks and willow cuttings in the bottom of my garden...

My garden is bordered by a small stream...obviously...

This afternoon I therefore decided to make a punitive expedition * to try to find the dam of this colony of beavers...

So I went up the stream for more than 500m from my garden...and for the moment, no dam a priori but I'm not (yet) a beaver specialist! I did see some "restraints" but it doesn't look like real beaver dams...

So that you can understand and help a little with the analysis, here are all the photos of this little expedition...

Expedition which also made it possible to find a remnant of helium balloon and a kinder egg (with the surprise inside...not so old there was a QR code in the manual still readable)...and a remnant of bones from ?? ?

A very surprising fact: I saw small branches more than 1 m above the ground that were cut by beavers... I didn't know beavers climbed trees ...see below...

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What's that a bone?

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* to smash their pt..in dam... humor eh

[Christophe]

Does anyone have any idea where the colony might be?

What is the range of beavers?

[Macro]

You went up the stream for 500m....

I would be a beaver making a dam... To transport my materials, I will use the current... So my empty course I will do against the current...

Try going down 500m today

[phil59]

The piece of bone, I know ....

It's the last person who tried to find their mark!

Good luck !

In any case, are you planning to make yourself a beaver skin cap?

[Christophe]

You went up the stream for 500m....

I would be a beaver making a dam... To transport my materials, I will use the current... So my empty course I will do against the current...

Try going down 500m today

Yes absolutely, that's what I explained to my son today…except that I found my bits of plançon upstream! So I assumed they were going upstream with...

So yes, a punitive downstream expedition is planned!

[izentrop]

So yes, a punitive downstream expedition is planned!

The truly econolo attitude would be to put protective nets on your trees and let them live their life.

[Christophe]

If you had followed you would have understood that I was joking...

[Christophe]

I installed the 2 hunting cameras and replanted about twenty willow cuttings near the stream...

Corner 1:

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Corner 2:

[Christophe]

Now....AT TABLE !!!

[Macro]

They are no longer hungry... They ate spiderman and his kinder for dessert