Vale of Strathmore,Perthshire Dams are constantly being repaired and rebuilt to create canals where the beavers can trot safely undetectedThe dipper bobbing along the top of the dam looks oddly smart in this drunken landscape, his clean white bib reflected in the water below. All around is chaos. The beavers have felled most of the bankside birch, or sycamore and other trees they like to eat and consume for their dams. Less tasty species,like larch, left marooned in the flood, or have simply toppled over,exposing great root bulbs, which, and now,are slowly rotting. Fresh shoots sprout from a recently gnawed willow; the cartoonish stump is pointed, as if it has been place through a giant pencil sharpener. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com