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Muskrats are just one of the many animals who call the rivers home - they are rodents who must always live near water, just like beavers! Above is a muskrat house, called a lodge, on the Sudbury River between Sudbury and Wayland.  Muskrat lodges look very similar to beaver lodges, but they are usually smaller and made out of small brush and aquatic plants like cattails instead of the sticks and logs we usually see in beaver lodges.   Keep an eye out if you're walking along the river banks too - muskrats also dig burrows!