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Default Birds in the grocery store!

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"jmcquown" > wrote:

> OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
> > 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've seen news stories about it. Any place, like Sam's Club, Lowe's or
> whatever where they leave the doors open, birds will roost and take shelter
> and build nests on the store signs.
>
> I don't begrudge them one bit. We stole their territory by building this
> crap where there used to be trees for them to nest in.
>
> Jill


One of the clerks at Lowe's tells me that some of the birds have learned
to activate the door sensors. :-) They then come in and hang out on the
bird seed isle.
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