Medford Whole Foods bird house?

[m00n.livejournal.com]

Has anyone else noticed that the new(ish) Whole Foods on the Mystic Valley Parkway in Medford has a tiny, wooden bird house attached to the rafters over the bulk display?

What's with that?

I probably would never have noticed except that I went in there today and there was a little sparrow flying around while I was buying my groceries.

Comments

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

uh...

while i have seen birds get into stores, food courts, etc, i would not encourage them to live around food like that. seems pretty unsanitary.

gross.

[jodi.livejournal.com]

because food grown on farms is kept away from all bugs and birds and dirt?

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

uh, no, but most people do make an effort to keep birds away from crops first of all, and secondly, this isn't a farm. it's a store in the city. and i'd rather birds not be wading through my nuts and grains.

[subtledagger.livejournal.com]

Short of shooting or poisoning it, there's not much that can be done other than what they're doing. Trying to trap it.

But it doesn't seem to want to cooperate.

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

oh no, i'm fine with the trap idea, i didn't realize when i initiially commented that's what they were doing.