Today we took my puppy for a walk but ended up taking my cat for a walk, too.
We went down to where Hoisington Brook empties into Lake Champlain to look at the beaver lodge there. (
There seemed to be an area next to the Beaver lodge where the mud had been dug away from the bank. It looked like the beavers had used the mud from the dug up area to pile on the beaver lodge. The water was very high because it has been raining. The beaver lodge was very wet. The beaver lodge seemed like it had been soaked all over from the rain. There was also some ice by the edges of Hoisington Brook because it has been getting so cold in December.
From our livingroom we can see that there is a strong current leading a lot of the mud out into the lake and around the shore to the right. From the way the ice has formed on the surface, it looks like there is a partial beaver dam at the mouth of Hoisington Brook. Next to the beaver lodge there are branches with beaver tooth marks on it.
The Brook is very brown and muddy right now and the current is rushing.
I think there is ice on Hoisington Brook because it got down to 1 degree F a few days ago.
