This picture is made at the beaver dike. I had a great chance to see the area day before and after the forester had removed the dam. The dam was about 1 meter deep and 2 meters wide. It was made from cut down trees, mud, soil, branches. All the ditches behind the dike were full of standing water.
We walked upstream and found out that there are tree more dams. The distance between the first and the second was about 100 m. The flood had spred into the ditches in the spruce forests, inundated a large area and killed the trees. We saw a lot of muddy tracks and trees cut down and peeled off by the beaver.
Slowly it became darker and I decided to climb up in the tree hoping to see beaver. I was sitting on the branch and waiting. At the beginning it was allright, but later my legs started to get tired. There were also mosquitoes all around, but with my hands busy I couldn’t really fight with them.
So far I didn’t hear a thing. Suddenly there was a splash but that was all. In a while I saw a big light bird flying around me - an Ural Owl.
One week later I was visiting the same spot again. The dam number four was removed as well.
Triin
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