{"id":699606,"date":"2026-06-12T11:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T11:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/699606\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T11:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T11:29:12","slug":"beaver-spotted-at-the-ballard-locks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/699606\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaver spotted at the Ballard Locks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A beaver was spotted at the Ballard Locks on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leslie Rome shared the below video of the beaver, which she said she spotted on the Magnolia side of the locks near the fish ladder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beavers are fairly common near Ballard\u2014last year, another reader sent us a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myballard.com\/2025\/05\/28\/beaver-spotted-over-the-weekend-at-the-ballard-locks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">video of a beaver cruising down the sidewalk at the locks<\/a>. That said, usually they\u2019re spotted around Golden Gardens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you want to see beavers in the wild, check out the beaver ponds at Golden Gardens, the creek systems in Carkeek Park, or the Promontory Ponds at Magnuson Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks Leslie for sharing the photo and video!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A beaver was spotted at the Ballard Locks on Tuesday. Leslie Rome shared the below video of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-699606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}