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Default Birds in the grocery store!

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"kilikini" > wrote:

> "OmManiPadmeOmelet" > wrote in message
> ...
> > All three of our local supermarkets, due to the size of the ceilings,
> > have a small population of wild birds that live inside of them. ;-)
> > Mostly sparrows.
> >
> > Wal-mart and the super HEB have a few grackles as well.
> >
> > They even reproduce, I can hear the babies in some of the more sheltered
> > places in the ceilings.
> >
> > Does not bother me, I find it to be rather charming! I just make sure I
> > wash my produce. I think they are cute and am impressed that the store
> > management leaves them alone.
> >
> > They could always poison them but more would just come in. It's a
> > problem with automated doors.
> >
> > Anyone else?
> > --

>
> When I was living in Hawaii, the doors were always open in our local Sack N
> Save to catch the tradewinds; I guess it made air-conditioning cheaper.
> Birds were in the grocery store all the time! I loved hearing their chirps
> and watching them fly around the store while I was shopping. I figured they
> fared better inside than out because they had fruit and vegetables to live
> on. There was never less than two or three in the store at any given time.
>
> I thought it was nice. Hearing them sing made me happy.
>
> kili


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