Shoes, Ships, and Sealing Wax

More Suburban Wildlife

Another new neighbor:

Actually, we have had beavers as long as I have lived here, this is just the first time I've seen one up close. (He's bigger than I realized...in Ranger Rick drawings, all the little woodland creatures looked to be the size of squirels.) One year their dams were so effective that the creek flooded and washed out the bike path. A lot of people wanted to get rid of them (the same people who consider the geese pests, and don't like deer because they eat gardens)...I admire their adaptability, myself. And the animals eating my tomato plants and crapping on the sidewalk doesn't irk me nearly as much as the neighbors who park in my reserved parking space.