Not all birds fly south for the winter; some head for Home Depot and other big-box stores.
While consumers flock to home improvement centers for appliances and tools, wild birds aspire to something higher: the rafters.
They get in through automatic doors, loading docks and attached garden centers.
I’ve seen birds flying around Costco, Home Depot, and Lowes in Bend, and wondered if this was a problem elsewhere. Apparently so.
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There was one in Macy’s last year. The staff was worried because it would set off the alarm if they couldn’t get it to go outside… and apparently the mall management and animal control were less than helpful.
We had a sparrow in our Walmart last winter. I thought it was the coolest. It was cute! I would spend easily 10 minutes hunting the little guy down in the beams or following him around. He would chirp every so often but he never came down very low, never lower than the top shelf of any of the shelving units. So it’s not like he dive-bombed shoppers or was a nuisance. It was pretty cool.