Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for January 25, 2015

I sometimes notice birds in my grocery store’s rafters.

Domesticated Nature is the easiest kind to which one can relate! But Petey’s folk-ornithology may be suspect in scientific circles….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GQGKdl9B9E

And they all vacation at the home improvement store, on the bird seed aisle..The best indoor birds I ever saw were in the shop building at Loudoun County’s vocational school.. From late spring through early fall, the big bay doors were usually left open by day.The building had really high ceilings. The rafters were full of hummingbird nests.On almost any given day, you could look up and watch the ruby-throats dance.

We frequently have a pair Carolina wrens nesting in our utility/laundry room out in the garage. The nest in on a shelf, directly over the utility sink. They reuse the same nest, over and over. It happens once or twice per year. It’s been going on long enough that it can’t be the same pair.

There’s a hawk living in my local Home Depot… cured the mice and rat problem, but I now wear a hat when I go there.

Delicious!

Petey seems to have inherited his father’s proclivity for creative instructionalism.

Wrens are notorious for nesting in and near human habitations. They like to use our artifacts to build their nests in/on.

A few years ago, the Walmart near where I lived got invaded by a flock of ravens. I am not sure how long it took them to get all the birds out, the ravens were flying around in the store for at least several days.

We had a nesting duck in our local Home Depot store. She stayed there until her ducklings could get out. She came back the next year, but the people coming to the store just to see her, in the outdoor department, of course, were too much and she got reloacated somewhere else.