Please join the Simsbury Grange and The Simsbury Public Library in welcoming local filmmaker, Ray Asselin, as he presents his 5-part Beaver Pond Wildlife series documenting a full year’s time at New England beaver ponds. The films are scheduled to coincide with what you can expect to see at northeastern beaver ponds at that time of the year. All of the films will be shown at 7:00 pm at the grange with an informal social hour beginning at 6:00 pm. Guests may bring food to enjoy outside or in the lower level before each film begins.
Few wildlife species are more intriguing, and none has a greater ability to alter and create habitat than that iconic keystone species, the beaver. This unassuming mammal goes about its daily life setting up and maintaining its homestead, all the while creating aquatic and terrestrial conditions that so many other creatures rely on.
We'll see migrating birds arriving at beaver ponds to stake out nesting territories, including warblers, songbirds, swallows, ducks, geese, herons, woodcock, hawks, ospreys, bald eagles, and more. A variety of mammals, amphibians, fish, and reptiles are part of the mix too, such as beavers (of course), muskrats, deer, fisher, bobcat, otters, weasels, opossum, coyote, skunk, frogs, turtles, toads, and newts. Life on, above, and below the pond surface is explored. See you there!
Doors of the Grange Hall will open at 5:30pm.