Well I find it exciting to have found a Beaver lodge so close to home. Apparently Beavers are more abundant across Pennsylvania then I had thought. I knew they were in the more natural northern and western counties but they are near me too. This lodge has at least 4 or 5, the parents and what looks to be two generations of kits.
These are very challenging to shoot!! Here is my first attempt. Apparently they are somewhat nocturnal and only come out after dusk. So there I am with 420mm of glass trying to shoot at 1/80 shutter speeds. I put the flash on as it got darker, but with them some 40-60 feet away it's hard for the flash to go that far. Next time I will take off the TC and pick that extra stop for the flash. But here are my results.











It appears they has some kind of oily substance protecting their eyes, make for a clear shot of the eye rather difficult:)
All shot at dusk with a D70 and a Nikon 300f4 on a Kenko 1.4XTC. For the flashed shots it's a Nikon SB-800 set manually to max.