Beaver

William Watt photographed this beaver at Hamlen Woods in Wayland.

Liz Hanna photographed these trees chewed by beavers along Hop Brook at the Town of Sudbury's Haynes Meadow Conservation Land.

Jim DeLuco photographed this beaver at Bruce's Pond in Hudson.

Filip De Vos photographed this beaver along Hop Brook in Sudbury.

Eric Crockwell photographed a beaver, a cotton-tailed rabbit, a tree swallow, and white-tailed deer along the Sudbury Reservoir Trail, part of the Boroughs Loop Trail, in Southborough.

Karen Blumenfeld photographed a beaver as it gnawed through a tree that remained hung up in the branches next to it in Wayland.

Gail Sartori photographed a beaver and a scarlet tanager in Maynard.

Craig Smith photographed beavers, a chipping sparrow, an eastern towhee, an eastern wood-pewee, and pink lady's slippers at SVT's General Federation of Women's Clubs of Massachusetts Memorial Forest in Sudbury.

Gail Sartori photographed a beaver and a palm warbler at Horse Meadows Knoll in Harvard.

Gail Sartori photographed a beaver, a palm warbler, and a red-breasted nuthatch at Heath Hen Meadow Brook Conservation Area in Stow.