Many of you shared our ups and downs last year with Bernie and Bernice Beaver. They dammed our three ponds, took down at least 50 trees and large shrubs and generally were a pleasurable problem. Then they disappeared and peace returned.
Well, two beavers are now back in those ponds and, therefore, we’ll also be reporting on them as Bernie and Bernice – if they decide to stay and lay claim to our ponds. They seem to be mostly scouting out the area now::
However, being beavers, they can’t resist closing up the gurgling channels I dug to keep the pond waters from flooding due to the original B&B dams. And I, being human, can’t resist re-digging those channels almost daily. It’s like the war with Iran; neither side is winning; disparity in resources doesn’t matter, and we can’t figure out a suitable compromise. Here we go again; stay tuned.
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on May 10, 2026.)