...and before I forget: yesterday morning I and a group of Store colleagues (do they count as my 'colleagues', as I work for The Company, rather than The Store?? Maybe not, now that I think of it. But I see them as such, anyway, and that's what's important. Colleagues they are) were treated to a close encounter with a terribly pretty juvenile Robin.
It fluttered about along the wall and around our legs and then along the wall again and at the metal door that we would soon be walking through (when a manager deigned to show up) and then onto the top of a nearby bike rack and then back to the door again...it seemed most determined to find a way in. Only when a manager finally arrived did it flit off, but I did wonder at the time as to whether or not it attempted to get in later and possibly succeeded. There are several birds - including a couple of pairs of adult robins - nesting in the eves (is that the word? The big metal beams that hold the roof up, anyway) in various places throughout the store, so maybe its family were in there somewhere and it had accidentally got shut out the night before. Poor thing if so. I hope it found them again. It seemed quite hearty and healthy and able to fly properly and such, though, so hopefully it will be alright.
Isn't it funny how like slightly misshapen starlings fledgling robins look, though? Lots of speckles, wings that glow with hints of greens and blues, and not a hint of red across their chests at all. I had to double check online and find a picture before I truly believed that's what it had actually been. James, one of the warehouse staff, said that it was, and it did look very robin shaped and it moved in a very robin-esque way, but still. How odd.
=shrugs=
Just thought I'd share that, anyway.
It was a pleasant interlude before the days work began; we all enjoyed it.
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