A Personal Glimpse

Changes in weather patterns often make photographing animals difficult as they are not in their usual haunts. Sometimes however these changes provide us with new exciting experiences. Algonquin park was so dry this past Spring that I was able to cross a beaver dam to an area I had not explored. I was able to view from there the new location of the local beaver and set myself up to watch and slowly move in. For two days they worked around me coming out of the water and dragging tree branches back to the water just out of sight. I could hear them on the bank on either side of me. I sat tight and my patience paid off. Soon they completely ignored me, feeding just feet away and literally swimming under the bank I was crouched on. Twice a beaver surfaced and came up right beside me. I could have put my hand down and touched it. Magical.