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I saw a good example of wildlife adapting to the human changes on the planet yesterday. I was waiting in the car at Wally World when I saw a little brown bird drop down and enter the grill of a car. I thought "You don't want to be building a nest there"...
In a second he came popping out with a nice big bug off of the radiator in his beak and flew off. He knew where the food supply was...


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Yup! It is amazing how seemingly common creatures come up with creative ways to do life's tasks out of necessity.

Reminds me of when I was younger and used to ride my horse regularly around the local reservoir. There was this one hug beaver dame along one of the creeks that had several 2 by's intertwined with the rest of the sticks and logs. We had a standing joke about which one went out and bought his logs at the lumber yard. One day I noticed a construction site upstream and by no means all that close to where the damn was located. Somehow they must have figured out that they could snag a couple of boards at night when nobody was around and float them downstream to their construction site. I didn't tell on them.

Now, that's just darned ingenious.

dforeman wrote:Yup! It is amazing how seemingly common creatures come up with creative ways to do life's tasks out of necessity.

Reminds me of when I was younger and used to ride my horse regularly around the local reservoir. There was this one hug beaver dame along one of the creeks that had several 2 by's intertwined with the rest of the sticks and logs. We had a standing joke about which one went out and bought his logs at the lumber yard. One day I noticed a construction site upstream and by no means all that close to where the damn was located. Somehow they must have figured out that they could snag a couple of boards at night when nobody was around and float them downstream to their construction site. I didn't tell on them.

We have english sparrows that have gotten really good at doing the "grilling". Beavers seem to be able to adapt otherwise as well. My son worked for a guy who built fence and did some tree transplanting/ landscaping. They had a job at a local state park, so they had to put in a lot of pretty good sized trees to hide some of the access roads and gates. They had taken some trees from an area near a beaver dam and re-planted them about a mile away. They did not finish,and left the tree shovel parked where they were going to get more trees the next day. Some thing happened and they were late getting to the job site but when they did get there, the found what the boss called blatant vandalism. The beavers had cut 5 or 6 trees during the night and most of them fell on the shovel!