Yesterday, Fiona and I were having a picnic on the dock while Dan tried to figure out how to get the in ground sprinkler system to start working again. While we were watching the ducks swim by we noticed something swimming towards us that was too low in the water to be a duck. We thought it was a turtle at first just paddling around and just as it was coming into sight it dove under water and we could see that it was largish. I thought it might be an otter and Fiona thought it was a cat!
We watched the water for a while and saw the animal come up behind our neighbor's house so we went running over there and discovered that it was a beaver. It was so incredible. I've never seen a wild beaver before.
You can just see the beaver's head as it swims
Beaver chewing on log
Today we saw a wild turkey wandering around by one of the houses. For some reason it looked so out of place. They are super strange looking birds and it's hard to imagine why someone would have looked at one and thought it might be tasty. They have those weird long hairy patches on their chests that look like pony tails and then of course all the extra red bumpy skin on their heads and chests (the wattle). Any how it was still pretty cool to see one. The funniest was when there was one at the library where I work. In the middle of a really suburban place. This turkey was just walking around and then ran across a 5 lane street. Which of course solicited all sorts of 'why did the turkey cross the road' jokes.
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