Beaver Family Swimming
Two beaver kits ride on their mother's back as the family swims through a quiet New Hampshire pond. I photographed them from a kayak one summer morning, surrounded by tall grass and still green water. This original photograph is available in a variety of formats, from wall art to gifts.
Soft green reflections fill the water around them, broken only by thin grass stalks and scattered droplets. The kits stay close behind their mother, a rarely photographed moment of family life on the pond.
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Beaver Family Fine Art Photography Print
If you collect rare wildlife photography, this one's a story worth telling. An original New Hampshire pond moment with two beaver kits hitching a ride on mom's back, photographed from a kayak. Perfect for cabin walls, lake houses, and woodland nurseries.
I was out on my kayak photographing birds when I spotted this beaver family moving quietly through the water. At first glance it looks like three beavers swimming together. Then you realize the two young kits are tucked right on top of mom's back, hitching a ride like tiny furry passengers. Beavers may have invented the original family carpool.
This fine art photography print is made to order in my Henniker studio on your choice of archival paper or sublimated aluminum metal. Sizes range from a 4x6 desk accent to a 24x30 statement piece. Metal photo prints ship ready to hang with Command strips. Paper prints arrive ready for standard framing.
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Beaver Family Photography Note Card
Two beaver kits riding on their mother's back through a New Hampshire pond — nature is practical, adorable, and occasionally funnier than anything we could stage. This is the wildlife note card people actually stop to look at twice.
The North American Beaver (Castor canadensis) is one of North America's most remarkable wetland animals. I photographed this family from my kayak on a New Hampshire pond while out watching birds. At first it looks like three beavers swimming. Then you realize the two young kits are riding on the adult's back.
Beavers may have invented the original family carpool. This original wildlife note card captures that real New Hampshire pond moment exactly as it happened, printed on premium Red River linen cardstock with a textured finish, blank inside for a handwritten note, and comes with a matching envelope and sleeve.
- Original North American Beaver family wildlife photograph by Linda Nee, shot from a kayak in New Hampshire
- Printed on premium Red River linen cardstock with a textured finish
- Blank inside for a handwritten note
- White envelope and protective cellophane sleeve included
- 5x7 size, ready to mail, gift, or frame
- Works as a Mother's Day card, birthday card, thank-you note, or wildlife lover gift
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Beaver Family Desk Mat
Three beavers glide in quiet formation across a New Hampshire lake, bringing calm, natural rhythm to any desk.
I photographed this family of North American beavers, Castor canadensis, gliding through calm green water on a New Hampshire lake, their three bodies lined up together near reeds and soft reflections at the height of summer stillness.
This desk mat brings that quiet lake rhythm to a cabin office, lake house, or creative studio in muted greens and warm browns. Printed in my Henniker, New Hampshire studio with fade resistant color, it turns a real New Hampshire encounter into a piece of everyday desk decor.
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Beaver Family Swimming Mouse Pad
Three beavers, one calm lake, zero rush, this mouse pad has more chill than most people manage before their second coffee.
These North American beavers (Castor canadensis) glide through calm green water on a New Hampshire lake, three bodies lined up like a tiny, unplanned parade. I watched them move through the shallows with the kind of steady confidence that comes from being good at exactly one thing.
That same calm green water and warm brown fur hold up at 9.25 by 7.75 inches of smooth polyester with a quarter inch rubber base, sized for a laptop desk or a small office corner. This scene happened on an actual New Hampshire lake, not a stock nature photo.