Busy beavers build first English dam for 800 years
Ottery St Mary The first beaver dam to be built in England for 800 years has been erected on the River Tale in Devon by a pair of the rodents that were brought from Bavaria last year.John-Michael Kennaway, of the Escot Estate in Ottery St Mary, where staff created a two-acre home with ponds and woodland along a section of the river for the two-year-old beavers, said that building the 6ft dam out of mud, bark and twigs meant that the animals were likely to be breeding.More…