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Default Birds in the grocery store!

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> 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?
>


I see/hear them too. I kind of like them chirping away while I'm
shopping. I get a chuckle out of my local Farmer Jack...they put a big
gaylord of birdseed right outside the door and the sparrows are
practically living in it.


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