Busy as a............(nope, not a BEE, guess again!)....

We took a walk down to the lake, right down on our shore by our house yesterday.

Right away, we knew something was different.

Then we walked further, and saw

that

we had a visitor

during the night.

Look close to see the destruction we saw:

See all the branches laying in the snow?

Look to the left of the branches on the snow and ice. See that tree cut down?:




There were more cut down too!:





Oh gosh...and even MORE cut down!!!:




This one looked like he ate it like an apple and then went right for the top!
But where or where IS the tree he cut down???:



In addition, we saw that he used our fish cleaning table
for
a
BUFFET TABLE!:
See the shavings on the table?

(If you haven't guessed by now, we had a busy BEAVER visit our yard!)





Evidently a very HUNGRY beaver:

This one was chewed with a clean cut!:





Must've tasted like potato chips!:

Looks like he rested here beside the rock for a siesta, pooped out from the munchies:

Before he had dessert!:

Obviously, this must have been the main entree:

See how he chewed that stump in a circular pattern?

A side dish:







And yet another....

Good grief! He did all this eating in ONE NIGHT!!!:

No WONDER he didn't take the rest of the branches with him:

I mean....

did you SEE the size of the main entree???:

We couldn't figure out where he hauled most of the trees and branches after

he chewed them down.

Then we looked at the drainage pipe a little ways from our lot.

He must be hauling them way down the drainage pipe:

See all the sticks left

from

him trying to haul them down the drainage pipe?:

Oh Boy.

Spring ought to be interesting around here when it comes......

If I hear of the drainage pipe "not working" and of some local flooding....

well,

we now know WHO TO BLAME.................

In the meantime, we just may have to get a posse together to sit on that rock and guard the rest of the trees our yard....

because partner, I love animals....

but I love the trees in our yard beside our lakeshore just as much!!!!!

(Besides.....now what in the HECK are we going to tie our boat up to when we pull to shore?

He ATE the tree down that we used to tie our boat up to!)