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PostWed Jan 22, 2014 11:35 pm 
What's the key to get a good beaver shot? All I ever get to see are dams and wood chips. shakehead.gif

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PostWed Jan 22, 2014 11:57 pm 
Be patient. Camp overnight near a known beaver pond location. Set up a blind. Study them. Study photos of beavers.

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PostThu Jan 23, 2014 1:36 am 
like2thruhike wrote:
What's the key to get a good beaver shot?
Night vision. They are mostly nocturnal creatures.

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PostThu Jan 23, 2014 4:08 am 
Early morning canoeing...lower rivers. But I watched a huge beaver carry a long branch up ebey(?) slough under US 2 trestle full daylight two weeks ago. Slack tide. He didn't even blink at my hound who wanted to do battle. Tom

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PostThu Jan 23, 2014 7:28 am 
up.gif hockeygrin.gif I like beaver. hockeygrin.gif up.gif

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PostThu Jan 23, 2014 8:50 am 
Get in a canoe smile.gif

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PostThu Jan 23, 2014 9:00 am 
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PostThu Jan 23, 2014 10:56 am 
ok gnomieee being good...just pointing it out ... notlistening.gif

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PostThu Jan 23, 2014 11:16 am 
Hang out around the ship canal at Fremont. Ever notice that all the trees have chicken wire around them?

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PostThu Jan 23, 2014 12:43 pm 
i heard there is a place in portland, but I think cameras are frowned upon there.

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PostThu Jan 23, 2014 1:39 pm 
Early morning hours, keep still. The ones I've seen have been wary and will disappear if you move.

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PostThu Jan 23, 2014 2:16 pm 
My best look at a beaver has been Thornton, one of the many beavers in Thornton creek near Northgate Mall in north Seattle, a very urban area. I've seen him swim under my feet as I stood on the culvert, and I've seen him munching stuff on dry ground 15' away. I never got that close to a beaver in Minnesota. The road crews there have a sadistic method for keeping beaver dams from flooding roads: they run a drain pipe under the dam, put an L in it, and saw it off at the level they want the pond to be. Poor beavers build and build and build, and can't figure out why their pond level doesn't rise. I once saw a beaver dam in the earliest phase of construction: they'd dragged cut saplings stem-first to the stream bed, and left them in a row across a shallow creek, stems pointing downstream. The branches, facing upstream, were already collecting flotsam, impeding water flow. It was obvious how dam-building behavior got started: if you drag cut saplings, you're going to drag them by the stem, and you're likely going to drag them downhill, and if you happen to leave them in a watercourse, they're going to collect flotsam, starting a pond.

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PostThu Jan 23, 2014 4:38 pm 
like2thruhike wrote:
What's the key to get a good beaver shot?
...m-m-m-must resist making comment.... devilsmile.gif

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PostFri Jan 24, 2014 6:05 pm 
like2thruhike wrote:
What's the key to get a good beaver shot?
Probably the pictures you posted. I was fishing in the Sierra's when I ran into a beaver on a deeply incised stream. We were both trapped in the bottom of the stream. So I took out my camera and decided to take some up close and personal pictures of a beaver. A pissed off beaver is not photogenic! Really, a beaver outside of water is pretty ugly. Put the two circumstances together and you get a real ugly picture. At some point I realized that we needed to back off to our respective corners. If I were looking for good pictures of beavers I would get a wet suit and find a beaver pond. They are a lot better looking swimming around than on land. The best pictures are underwater. So there.....am I the only one that has ever ran into a pissed-off beaver in the woods??

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PostFri Jan 24, 2014 6:48 pm 
I have a wetsuit and like winter snorkeling. I have thought about snorkeling in their ponds but was concerned about Giardia aka "beaver fever". I'd imagine I could easily get it using a snorkel. Plus I'm sure the beaver wouldn't take kindly to intruders in their hood?! In my travels I've seen a few beaver. Usually a brief encounter ending with the old slap of the tail on the water warning to other beav's. They're pretty cool to see in the water but I've heard they're not so docile on land if you're in close proximity. I've been seeing lots of signs they're active in the cascades. They're protected?

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