Our beaver, whom Lisa has named Bucky, was back in the open water at our end of the pond tonight.
"Bucky"When he swam away from shore for awhile, I took the opportunity to sneak down there, wearing my camo gear, to see if I could get some closeups before he spotted me. When he returned, things were going pretty well until I moved and snapped a fallen branch and off he swam, giving a loud slap of his tail, as they are wont to do.

While he was gone, I captured this image of several drowned stumps poking up through the ice.

Not wanting to scare him off for good, I retreated back to the driveway and waited. Sure enough, he returned, and I captured one final image before leaving him alone for the night.