Beaver Pond?

[sherppa]

Yesterday while scouting a section of creek, I happend on a nice littel pond that showed all kinds of sign that the beaver had moved in.  The question I have is, why do they push mud up on the bank along the edge of the creek.
 
All along the edge the is fresh mud lining the creek.
 
thanks sherppa

[Bogmaster]

 Are they making their castor mounds? or is it an effort to raise the water level?
 If they are piling mud along the entire length , they may throw up a dam along the creek--next.
 Tom

[sherppa]

Thanks Tom,
 
What they are doing is lining the edges of the creek bank. 
 
Could they be digging it out, to make it deeper?
 
sherppa

[Bogmaster]

 That is a possibility, especially if there is a good food source there.
 Tom

[sherppa]

thanks Tom,
 
Yes, there is a good food source it is a wooded creek on the prairie.  I noticed two seperate feed bed about twenty yards apart. 
 
sherppa