Mr. Beaver saves a morning photo shoot!

I have been going to Crab Orchard Wildlife Refuge for many years. On one of their roads near the lake there is a pull off which has a nice cove looking out over the lake which usually has interesting water birds like egrets, herons, ducks, pelicans and the like. You will also see local song birds, Jays and woodpeckers at times. On the other side there is a swampy shallow wetland area with a beaver den surrounded by water. For many years now I have only seen the family of geese that like to nest on the den but no beaver.

Well last week we, Kris Killman and I, were out early to get some photography in because a Super Moon setting over Bogarts Point would be pretty cool, and Sunrise was only about 30 min after moonset. Well cloud interfered the shots of the moon not many inspiring ones came of that. So we decided to drive around and see if any wildlife was out. We stopped at the pull off and Momma and Poppa Goose had 2 fuzzy new babies out eating an swimming. So we decided that would be a good shot so we stopped.

So while we were doing that I said to Kris “you know it has been years since I have seen the beaver, do you think we still have any living in that den?” He said he had seen him last year but not so far this year. Then no more than 10 seconds later guess who swims by!!!! We were both able to get some great shots of the Beaver. This made for a good morning shoot after a lack luster start. Thanks Mr. Beaver for saving our photo shoot.

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