By looking carefully at these, you may come across a track. The beaver has five toes on both front and hind feet, and large nails that leave deep impressions. The back feet are webbed. Beavers normally defecate in the water, so look for scat when the ponds dry up in the summer or where the water is shallow and clear. Scat is very hard to find.
Winter scat resembles little balls of sawdust.
May. A beaver family works together building and gathering food. The family is made up of the parents, the young from the previous year, and the current kits. At the end of their second year, they young are forced to leave the lodge. They often move downstream, creating a chain of beaver ponds following a watercourse. In 1764, beavers were trapped out of Massachusetts.