Look what I found!

I was out walking in my neighborhood and passed a small pond and saw this! At first I thought maybe a car had hit the bigger tree here. But that pencil-shaped smaller tree is a definite sign of beaver activity. I have seen muskrats in this pond but never a beaver. So I asked some National Park Ranger friends about this and they confirmed that this was done by beavers. They can live in very small bodies of water even near busy streets!