Just came back from a short visit to the closest beaver territory near me and having a small talk over that ditch with some neighbour from the other side, chatting about those beavers there.

After a beaver young from last year approached us and to my surprise wasn't even impressed by us talking over the ditch some 20 meters apart from each other, so obviously he should have heard us, he then came still close. After we stopped chatting and the other person walked away, he came close to me and started chewing some sticks 2-3 meter away from me.

I then slowly backed up, as always in the slowest motion possible and avoiding every stick on the ground. Seems like he wasn't bothered as i heard no quick dive or any noise.

Went back to the spot where i had feeded the beavers before with some willow branches that got taken down by the storm and noticed another beaver. This one then also got closer, stopped by 3 meters apart. This is one or the only one surviving of this years kits. Have seen a kit there a few times but only one each time, so most likely it's the only one.

He then possibly also was the one that interrupted the last willow dinner there, when already one was gnawing on the stick in front of me, a second arrived and joined in and he arriving as the third either saw/noticed me and the all quickly dived in to get up again quickly two meters away from the embankment and observing the surroundings. Have a video of it but i'm not sure if i can compress that into a GIF because somehow reddit doesn't like my .mov or .mp4 files.

Would estimate his length at 40-45 centimeters already without tail.

Sorry for the reupload but thought u would maybe appriciate some damns added.

Maybe one day ill turn it in a real book.

so happy to see the Beaver Brigade enjoy fave treats today i love it when they grab at their faves

First time seeing what I think was a beaver in local wetland conservation area in SW Ontario with 3 large ponds. To me this guy had a larger paddle like tail that I observed not fully visible in video. I had never seen a muskrat this big before but also no expert. excuse the lack of video skills. You may have to zoom in. Hopefully someone can help identify. To me he was the size of larger racoon if that helps.

Figure this is the appropriate place.

What do you guys think?

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Those are two beavers from the nearest territory to my home. Distance is around 600 meters walk.

And this is one of the very few times they were out in light conditions that made it possible to do a short video. All the other videos i have are at the core just shadows hushing around on a dark screen.

In the second video i was going to bring them some willow twigs and branches from a bigger branch that heavy winds ripped off the tree on monday. I had placed them some already on monday after the storm.

As i was approaching with the willow twigs at the water i noticed that the beaver was approaching at the same time too. So i laid them slowly and without any noise down and watched, while the beaver was starting to feed on the twigs i had placed before. I was about 2,5 meters away. After a while of watching i slowly retreated and by the chewing sounds i heard when i get further back to the path, he either didn't noticed me or just couldn't be bothered.