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Gnawings

Beaver (Castor canadensis) gnawing.
Piles of twigs with the bark gnawed off can be spotted from far away. These are beaver feeding stations or feed beds.

This chunk of femur was gnawed upon by a rodent in search of calcium. Notice that the toothmarks on the left side of the bone are very small, too small to be those of a squirrel, rat, or chipmunk. They are less than a millimeter wide, and probably belong to a white-footed mouse or deer mouse (Peromyscus spp.).

This is a former red-winged blackbird nest that is now
being used as a feeding platform by mice. It is full of
seeds.

This is a Hibiscus seed pod that has been opened and
eaten by some type of small rodent. Each one of the small
seeds has been opened, and had the contents eaten.
Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) twigs were incised
by a small rodent to make this nest.

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*Produced by Travis Brown 2-22-02

This chunk of femur was gnawed upon by a rodent in search of calcium. Notice that the toothmarks on the left side of the bone are very small, too small to be those of a squirrel, rat, or chipmunk. They are less than a millimeter wide, and probably belong to a white-footed mouse or deer mouse (Peromyscus spp.).	This is a former red-winged blackbird nest that is now being used as a feeding platform by mice. It is full of seeds.
This is a Hibiscus seed pod that has been opened and eaten by some type of small rodent. Each one of the small seeds has been opened, and had the contents eaten.	Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) twigs were incised by a small rodent to make this nest.