My slight disappointment at not seeing a Real Live Beaver was however shortlived, thanks to some jolly good diagrams on the wall which, once memorised, allowed me to come home and build my very own Dam with the help of my friend Beaver.
Here is Beaver finding a good spot. He is checking that there is food and also water nearby. There is!
And here he is again, gathering branches that will soon become logs. He will make the logs with his own teeth. 
You may think that by this point, Beaver would be quite tired but he is not. As you can see, his branches are piling up. Driven by pure adrenaline, Beaver will work long into the night (despite pouring rain and 80mph wind). 
Here you can see Beaver checking the height of the doorway is about right. It is!
Here is Beaver in his finished dam. He is tired and a bit fuzzy now, but very happy. Goodnight Beaver! Good work, old chap!
10 comments:
Miss Monkey: you are a very special sort of mad, and I salute you :)
Genius. Heaven only knows why Lambie-Nairn or Bates Dorland have not yet snapped you up.
Beavers live in their own dams, as I understand it. Not in the concrete, man-made ones.
That is the worst damn I have ever seen. That beaver is rubbish. Maybe if he spent less time sleeping and more time thinking about how to build a decent damn he would... I dunno, be able to get proper job, or something.
So do the penguins swim in the dam?
...and another thing - Beaver is indeed Fortunate that he has the cabbage to sustain him.
I am going to a party tonight and I am going to build myself a little house made of twiglets and live in it.
Cheerful one, thank you dear.
Julia, so sorry to disappoint. Clare, no idea. Don't care either.
Mikey - will they be big enough?
Farty - no - they swam under the water and looked a bit cramped. There was a big hedgehog thing in a tree though, and an anaconda. Ooh!
Plenty big enough. I am a byblow of Inch High Private Eye.
Beavers build dams and lodges. They live in the lodges. They are ace engineers. Farmers hate them.
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