{"id":1389,"date":"2010-07-26T22:09:59","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T21:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2010-07-26T22:11:53","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T21:11:53","slug":"sparrows-get-drive-through-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/2010\/07\/sparrows-get-drive-through-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparrows get drive-through food"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sparrows in an East Cumbrian town have found a unique way of finding food.<\/p>\n

Cars arriving at the Co-Operative store in Kirkby Stephen are given a close inspection by the resident sparrows on the search for bugs.<\/p>\n

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Drive through food for birds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a sort of drive through food outlet for birds, flies and other insects are removed by the birds whilst the car driver goes for the shopping.<\/p>\n

Around a dozen birds appear to patrol the car park on the look out for new cars arriving.<\/p>\n

After locating the front grill area of the vehicle they then inspect the grill and the wheel arches on the search for food. Picking off any bugs with their beaks.<\/p>\n

Often in groups of three or four, the sparrows seem to have realised that they can get an easy meal just by cruising the car park.<\/p>\n

Over the course of a week hundreds of cars arrive in the car park providing possibly thousands of ready meals for the local bird population.<\/p>\n

Sparrow food<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many people often see sparrows in the garden eating scraps and seeds or eating from feeders.<\/p>\n

It would appear that these birds have adapted to take advantage of the regular arrival of cars and the various assortments of bugs stuck to the paintwork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sparrows in an East Cumbrian town have found a unique way of finding food. Cars arriving at the Co-Operative store in Kirkby Stephen are given a close inspection by the resident sparrows on the search for bugs. In a sort of drive through food outlet for birds, flies and other insects are removed by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,440,41],"tags":[2258,2261,2259,4574,270,2245,2250,2246,1417,62,541,2248,2241,490,2243,2253,2244,4573,82,2249,2257,2260,2255,238,2247,2254,2242,2252],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-birds","category-featured","category-wildlife","tag-assortments","tag-beaks","tag-bird-population","tag-birds","tag-bugs","tag-car-driver","tag-car-park","tag-cars","tag-co-operative","tag-cumbria","tag-cumbrian","tag-dozen-birds","tag-finding-food","tag-flies","tag-food-cars","tag-food-groups","tag-food-outlet","tag-insects","tag-kirkby-stephen","tag-new-cars","tag-paintwork","tag-ready-meals","tag-scraps","tag-seeds","tag-shopping","tag-sparrow","tag-sparrows","tag-wheel","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/author\/admin-2\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1401,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/1401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}