Beavers are emerging sooner in spring amid warmer weather

A beaver at Miquelon Lake Provincial Park near Edmonton. Once a pond is completely covered in ice, beavers are confined below the surface for the winter. (Glynis Hood), CC BY-NC-SA The most anticipated day of my year is “BDay” — the first day when beavers are spotted on the ice in spring after emerging from small openings in the water in front of their lodges after a long winter of confinement. With the rest of the pond still covered in ice, the beavers remain spatially confined but are free…