Wild Beaver at Maroon Bells, Colorado 2004

We usually spend 4-6 weeks in Aspen, Colorado, enjoying the great outdoors, hiking, the music and the ambience of this fantastic place. Each summer, I make a number of dawn trips to the famous Maroon Bells. In the summer of 2004, with friends from Sweden, we were hiking along Maroon Lake and we saw this beaver coming towards us. I immediately turned on my Canon Optura XI video and just let it run! The scenes you are about to see are a BEAVER IN THE WILD at Maroon Lake. This animal literally swims into the video whereupon he comes to shore, shakes the lake water off his back, and commences to enjoy a meal of willow branches. All the while I am taping! This is really an amazing and unique natural sighting, I am told. The beaver was only about 30 feet away from the camera, thus, I could use telephoto and capture the WONDERFUL DETAILS of his eyes, his prehensile hands grasping the branches. The sounds are also interesting. If you listen carefully, you can even hear the chewing or gnawing as this beaver digs into his morning breakfast. Enjoy! Malcolm 255.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• beaver
• maroon-bells
• wild-beaver
• beaver-eating
• beaver-swimming

[DravenCorvinus1]

Wow, great footage :o).

[whaaabamb]

my favorite part was the people sighting!

[planojudy]

WOW fantastic video 5 stars

[k6yardotcom]

omg...., it's so unreal!

nice video all the way... :) ruben

[carriemail2001]

omg SO CUTE!!! Cuter than a PONY!!! I <3 beavers!

[guineapig1234]

Ha, so cute i just want to hug the little buddy. FRED THOMPSON 08.

[sidecutqc]

This is a nice video!:) the beaver is not a rare animal but wit people like TIAAVENDEALANTIN, it mabe woul'be in not too long!!

[sicuro75]

There where a lot more trees before eauropean settlers got here and a lot more beavers as well. So i'm sure a beavers natural order is not the threat it's deforestation of man.

[kaitsofspades]

um... you'd think youd never seen one before or something. Its not like its a rare and shy animal...

[TIAAVENDEALANTIN]

Beavers in the US alone kill over 6 Billion trees a year. with an estimated population of 20 million beavers, each cutting and or eating the bark of one tree per day.