The oak leaves have finally fallen, and my ruminants are done with brush pile dining for the year. I'm very happy with how things turned out.
2 surprising observations were GBH(Great Blue Herons) not entering the brush piles at any time, and beavers robbing limbs from the brush piles, as opposed to stripping bark off live trees.
This brushpile started with a couple of "brush spiders", and is around 30' wide, and 20-30' out into the pond. When we hit full pool, the limbs will provide surface to bottom cover for fry and fingerlings.
This one is about 120' wide, and 10-30' out into the pond.
