Let's talk about wildlife

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So that was odd. Driving to work on my usual morning commute, there was a car in front of me - going 60-ish - and suddenly a bird appeared from under it and flew away.

Like the bird must have been on the road and the car passed right over it, and then the bird flew away.

Not something you see every day.
 
A young Arctic fox has walked across the ice from Norway's Svalbard islands to northern Canada in a journey covering 3,506 km (2,176 miles) in 76 days.

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At the end the GPS tracker came undone.

Here is this season's ice extent:

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Orcas been hunting great whites since 1997. Who knew.

 
I installed this nifty bird feeder at my house.

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Now we have a scoundrel squirrel intruder.

Any idea on how to thwart his efforts?
 
Bird feeders are awesome

The only downside is you have a 500% chance of attracting squirrels.

*offers no help at all
 
Fuck bro. Just dispatched a feeder to you as housewarming yesterday. It's a squirrel buster but needs to hang like three feet away from anything so they cant get to it.

Please return (Amazon) and get a wind chime or some other shit instead.
 
Thinking of getting a suet feeder. Attract a new set of avian friends.
 
At the University of Coimbra in central Portugal, there are bats in the biblioteca. They swoop through the stacks, winging over a first-edition of Dionysius of Halicarnassus’s "Roman Antiquities" and past a 15th-century book of hours and Homer's "Opera Omnia" — snapping up bugs as they go.

It’s one of two 18th-century Portuguese libraries where bats are welcome guests, allowed to stay for the bug-eating — and, by extension, manuscript-preserving — services they provide. And visitors to Portugal can see them for themselves.

In Coimbra, a colony of Common pipistrelle bats makes their home behind the bookshelves of the university’s Joanina Library, emerging at nightfall to consume flies and gnats and other pests before swooping out the library windows and across the hilltop college town in search of water. The service they provide is indispensable: They eat insects in the library that might otherwise feed on manuscript pages.

Whether the flittermice took up residence here 300 years ago, when the library was built, or more recently is unknown. Librarians do know they’ve been here since at least the 19th century; they still use fabric made from animal skin, imported from Imperial Russia, to cover the original 18th-century tables, protecting them from scat left by the library’s flying residents. And every morning, just as their forebears did, the librarians remove the skins and clean the library floors.
 
Yep. Happy with my career choice.