Jogged the Big Dry Creek trail, west of Wadsworth this evening, and saw a beaver! Now, we'd seen the dams in the creek, so their existence shouldn't have been a big surprise, but it was still quite amazing to see one in the flesh. Good size too, maybe three feet long excluding the tail. Googling around, I see that the city of Westminster is beginning to get concerned by the beaver population -- destroying trees and flooding the trails. I can see that; actually that part of the Big Dry Creek trail is turning into a lake.
Still, I can't quite believe that beavers live less than a quarter-mile from my house.
I stopped and watched the beaver for a few minutes, until it swam out of sight. Resumed jogging, and around the next bend in the creek there was a great blue heron, about a hundred feet away. For the next five minutes I watched it; it watched me, until it was time to go.
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