Busy busy beavers... new podcast update on our Delta Pit residents!

Busy busy beavers... new podcast update on our Delta Pit residents!

Photo by Holly Wilkinson

The beaver family at the Nene Wetlands in Northants has been with us now for over a year. Podcast host Sophie Baker visited Delta Pit for an update on what they've been up to...

Listen now to our latest podcast episode to find out what amazing, and surprising, work the beavers have been up to in and around the water. 

Is it enough to justify their clichéd characterisation as 'habitat engineers'? (Spoiler alert: yes); what have been the most surprising impacts? (Canals? Or people's delight?); and are there new kits in the freshly plastered lodge at Delta Pit? (Hard to know for sure...). 

All this and more as your host Sophie Baker takes to the water with Pete Bray, and to the barkless tree-riddled land with Ben Casey for a behind-the-scenes tour of the beaver enclosure.

A man and a woman, both in bright waterproofs, stand beside a pile of sticks talking about its construction as a beaver lodge

Photo by Holly Wilkinson

Credits

  • Podcast host and producer: Sophie Baker
  • Sound and assistance: Holly Wilkinson
  • Interviewees: Pete Bray and Ben Casey
  • Podcast music: Written and performed by James Williams. Mixed and produced by Jared Wentwick.
A woman in a red coat and a man in a green hat wave at the camera from a punt in the reeds as they head out onto the water

Photo by Holly Wilkinson