OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
> In article >,
> "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.

LOL! Birds aren't stupid. I've been raising them for years and I know how
intelligent they are.

Jill