[TN-Bird] Walmart Hummingbirds
- From: "Tommie Rogers" <Bananaquit1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "TNBird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <TN-Bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 13:58:24 -0400
Please talk to managers at Walmarts and tell them to change garden center
displays. The local Walmart has been trapping many hummingbirds this season
inside the garden center checkout area. There are two large ceiling fans which
kill many of the hummers. Others just die from exhaustion. I talked to the
manager and told him that the store should do something to stop attracting the
hummingbirds into the store. The flowers don't have to be close beside the
open doors into the store. The green shrubs which they sell could be placed
beside the doors instead. The employees said that they are told by management
where to place flowers. An employee told me that hummingbirds are killed
inside the store daily. She said she finds their dead bodies all over the
garden center indoors. I saw three inside when I was there. Yesterday, I
visited another Walmart garden center on the other side of town. I saw dead
hummingbirds hanging in the ceiling windows there. The stores garden centers
are almost identical. Please forward this plea for action to save hummingbirds
to other friends who shop in Walmart. If you have a better solution, please
let us know.
Tommie Rogers
Chattanooga, TN
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