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ANIMAL ENCOUNTERS IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD

9/27/2012

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How fortuitous, that, with my show about a beaver, a turtle and a salamander that I have beavers building a dam very near my house!  Two nights ago, at dusk, I went out to put a stick into the edge of the water as a marker to see how the water level changes.  As I stood back up I heard a loud THWACK!  A beaver! -Just across the river in the high water in the woods! Then, another THWACK!  I stood still. I waited.  In the minimal light I couldn’t see the beaver.  Then just a bit downstream, in the light of the moon, I saw ripples on the surface of the water.  That’s it! Then I could see that the ripples were coming TOWARD me!  I watched, motionless, as the beaver swam right past me and back into the woods.   After a while, hearing nothing, I decided to walk down to the bridge that has the dam underneath.  I stood on the bridge looking at the dark water below. Nothing. Then some movement caught my eye and I could see an animal coming out from under the bridge on the large rocks.  I couldn’t make it out. Then, silhouetted in the light coming from my neighbor’s house, I could see it was a fox! It stopped and watched as a little dog ran into the yard barking.  When the owner called out, the fox turned, ran back across the road by the bridge and disappeared into a bit of woods.   I looked up and watched a bat flapping against the dim light of the sky.  I could not have felt happier.

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    Deborah Costine

    Thanks for stopping in! 
    Since I am as interested in nature as I am in puppetry, my thoughts here will be about both.  My old house in a little neighborhood along the river provide me with daily opportunities for enjoying nature. I have a garden,two apple trees (which I love to climb and prune) plus a bit more lawn than I'd like.  I plant various shrubs and things to create pathways. From the back of my studio I can look almost directly down at the river. There is almost always someone paddling by; Mr Beaver, Ms Muskrat, The Otter twins- Nellie and MInnie, plus lots of ducks and geese - and the occasional human.

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