Here you see the full moon as it appeared over Great Cove yesterday at about 1 a.m. It’s not THE full moon that was supposed to rise here yesterday at about 4 p.m., but was hidden by rain clouds. Nonetheless, the morning moon was as luminescent to the human eye as the afternoon one would have been, and we needed rain more than we needed a technically more luminescent moon.
As many of you know, November’s full moon traditionally is called the Beaver Moon because it comes when American beavers are most active building or reinforcing their winter dams and lodges and Native Americans were most active trapping these largest of our rodents.
As many of you also know from these ITRP posts, I don’t need to be reminded of how active beavers can be at this time of year. Here’s a previously-taken image of Bernie, who adopted us this fall:
(Image of the moon taken in Brooklin, Maine, at 1:09 a.m. November 5, 2025.)