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It's off the side of a well traveled walking track. Only thing cut down around there. Looks like a beaver cut tree and there is a hole filled with water the critter could be using for a den. I will have to watch it and see if it gets stripped of bark.
Doesn’t look like a beaver or a person, it looks like a felled tree! Put your glasses on! :Rofl
Maybe a beaver but they usually strip a lot of bark off as well. Attachment 410714. Odd that the chips are so large and left at the base.
Good call. I was asking for that one. To much walking at the track had me not thinking clearly:RoflQuote:
Originally Posted by BuckeyeCrappie
The bark on the stump is stripped to the groundQuote:
Originally Posted by StantheMan2567
I’m going with a beaver. We shall see. Thanks for the photos.
Bob
Definitely a beaver.
I was deer hunting one fine day in Virginia. I sat on a hillside over looking a beautiful pond. The Sun had me napping. Then I heard this horrible sound and as I was trying to get to my feet a large tree crashed down right beside me. Yup….beaver done it. He had gotten real close to me to do it, too. Their eye sight is rather poor, so he may or may not have known I was there.
I have watched them chewing trees, and as the hunks come away and get spit out, you get to thinking about what a bite from one might entail. I suspect they could go through bone pretty swiftly.
They are territorial and the kids are expected to find another location once of age. Could be one looking for a new site come wandering through.
I will have to watch and see If I can photograph the culprit in action
Definitely a beaver.
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We have a population in my home water at Tyler State Park. (SE PA) They have perfect hidey holes along the bank from washed out tree stumps, but that chipping is so unique I know they’re there. A highly populated area but there they are.
Bob
It is a cool windy morn. The pups and I will go for a walk and see if we can spot and photograph this critter
Its a beaver....I used to trap them when I worked for the MS Forestry Commission.
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This mornings photo. It had started limbing the tree and dragging them into the lake. You can see the drag marks where it slides in. Still have not laid eyes on it
Time to put the game camera out
I don't think it would stay around long before someone made off with it
Or the beaver could bring the tree down that its on, lolQuote:
Originally Posted by DockShootinJack
That is exactly the luck I have
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Must be working the night shiftAttachment 410800
Yeppers!
Set out a cam late evening and retrieve it on the pups walk...
I will have to scout around and find another tree it is working
Should be easy to find
Couple of islands where it could be all shallow water in there. About a foot deep water and 3 feet of mud. During winter pool nothing but a mud flat