I believe the beaver has called in reinforcements. 4 more locations in the last 2 nights. Attachment 410900Attachment 410901
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I believe the beaver has called in reinforcements. 4 more locations in the last 2 nights. Attachment 410900Attachment 410901
Working on their winter home. Evidently couldn’t afford the ridiculous lumber prices in the stores! :Rofl
Certainly going after some nice trees. I am afraid with such activities that critter or critters will be removed form that park. Time will tell
Yeah, a few of those trees are decent sized. Lodge building going on and no building permit!
Bob
The top one is definitely a mature tree
I see evidence of beavers often but I rarely see one,
This one works the night shift
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Some more of his progress
Barber poled that one. Might have created itself a dangerous situation
I’d like to see that one that’s leaving those huge chunks of wood!
id say it’s a hoss fore sure!
I am thinking more than one. With all the activity. McCulloch did have a chainsaw called the eager beaver. Either way a lot of trees are getting cut down in that park
I bet they have some big ole choppers. Prolly went to Clear Choice! :Rofl
Probably so
Normally it is a whole family....mom and dad, two yearings, and two more smaller ones...so thats 6. The yearlings will go their own way soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by DockShootinJack
When the yearlings move on they will find mates and move again. Another interesting fact is....beavers mate for life.
Those are pretty interesting facts.
Them TVA folks turned them water front trees into a long ways from the water with their winter drawdown. That beaver decided to chew trees elsewhereAttachment 411112
Where is this?Quote:
Originally Posted by DockShootinJack
Chickamauga Lake . The first photo in this thread where the water is by the tree. The water is now about 100 yards across the mud
Beaver is pretty good eating. Especially the tail. Just sayin
I have not tried it.
His cousin the nutria is good too. I grew up around a lot of Cajuns and they bbq’ed them. Just rodents like squirrels and rabbits.
I hope those bigg'uns fall where they want 'em. I don't believe they are set up for skiddin' 'em much.
Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to train em to cut the ones close to the water so they fall in it? Think or the many nice lay downs we’d have!��
Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to train em to cut the ones close to the water so they fall in it? Think or the many nice lay downs we’d have!👍
We had those down in South Alabama growing up. Up here the equivalent would be BBQ'D groundhogQuote:
Originally Posted by ChoogieChunker
Lake level is now at winter pool. Water is a long ways from those trees nowQuote:
Originally Posted by Special K
Lots of blow downs in that stretch of the lakeQuote:
Originally Posted by ChoogieChunker
When I was in high school I had a contact with 2 brothers who bailed hay for a living to haul it and stack it in barns. I paid a couple of buddies to help. In the winter we made our money trapping. Mostly nutria with a few coons, otter, muskrats, and mink thrown in. We sold the dressed coon and nutria also. Never had a problem getting rid of them. I don’t recall any beaver back then but there are quite a few around now.
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TVA messed that critter up. Dropping 5 feet of water out of the lakes exposed a lot more land
Yep, sure looks like they did. Unfortunately Killed the tree.
Bob
Yeah I found that strange that it chewed the bark off that one. One just down from it is a smaller tree. It was hinge cut and laid down but still aliveQuote:
Originally Posted by BobC
Well they are rodent brained critters. They wander and chew. I have seen where they went by trees to get to further away trees of the same specie. Didn’t make sense to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by DockShootinJack
Although I have seen weird things. Like in the mountains I watched a bear munching on acorns. He nibbled as he ambled along. Suddenly he stopped and went straight up a tree. Way up to the top where he balanced precariously on some small limbs. There he would grab a branch and pass it through his mouth sucking the acorns off like a vacuum. I figured that that tree produced sweet acorns. It also taught me that climbing trees to escape bears is futile as he went up that thing like a champ.
Beaver are nocturnal and have very poor eyesight. They rely on their sense of smell. Docile for the most part and rarely bite. When they do bite it is usually just a chunk out of your hand, nothing lethal or anything.
Very true. Yet they do mange to fall a tree where they want it to go. Rarely do you see a tree hung up in another creating a dangerous situation for the cutter.