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Taken on May 20 2019
Beaver are early risers. During my visit to Elk Island National Park I toured the park at dawn to search for wildlife. There are numerous ponds dotted around the park, and they are all teeming with beaver activity in the early morning hours. Seen here is a busy beaver I spotted enjoying a snack of tall green grass on the pond's edge after a busy morning of dam construction. About an hour after sunrise all the beavers disappeared, and any passerby would think it was just a quiet uninhabited pond.