Last weekend I went to the Audobon Ipswich River property. My first time there. It was a short visit, by design, so I was only able to begin to get a feel for the place. There were a few cool things of note.
There was a beaver lodge built onto one of the decks that was crossing some water/wetland. I have never seen a lodge built onto a man made structure like that before. It was also funny that the managers were obviously trying to save some of the trees from the teeth of the beaver. There were trees that were started into and then covered up at the base in chicken wire. Some trees were already shot, in that the beaver had already stripped the cambium of the tree all the way aroudn. I wonder if the chicken wire will work for the trees that were not already done for?
Another thing that I apparently just missed was some small bird being the meal for a hawk. There was a big pile of feathers on top of and underneath a picnic table right next to the main parking lot. It is crazy how many feathers birds do have, which is made abundantly clear when you see something like this just plucked bird meal.
