Driving home from Denver, almost to Winter Park, I looked out the window and saw a bear walking by a pond. We pulled the car over and got out to watch the bear.

There was a small Beaver den on the pond. The bear was walking around the Beaver den sniffing at it and pawing at the logs. At the same time we could see at least two Beaver swimming around the pond. It took a few minutes for us to realize what was going on. The bear wasn’t interested in something near the den, the bear was trying to get into the den.

It didn’t take long for the beavers to know what was going on. They swam out into the middle of the pond and slapped the water with their tails. If you weren’t standing up high where we were, it might look like a fish jumped out of the water. It worked. The Bear’s attention was drawn to the water and he started swimming out into the middle. They kept slapping and the bear kept swimming. The bear did three or four laps around the pond. Eventually, the bear got out of the pond and wandered off until we couldn’t see where he went. The beaver den was safe for another day.