Squirrels Being Evicted!

Formally on my lunch hour now, my posts here wouldn't be complete without a squirrel story. Slovakia's main airport starts moving out squirrels Sep 11, 2007 BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AFP) — Slovakia's biggest airport Tuesday began relocating ground squirrels near the complex as they were endangering flights by attracting large birds. "We started moving the first animals today," Bratislava airport spokeswoman Zora Kalouskova told AFP, adding that around half of the estimated 1,000-strong ground squirrels could be relocated from fields bordering the airport. The squirrels attracted large birds of prey. This often led to bird hits or caused them to be sucked into the engines of planes either landing and taking off. The ground squirrels will are being relocated to an area about 40 kilometres (25 miles) away where holes have already been dug to house them.