Wild Bird Center

This is a review for the current Wild Bird Center on East Hampden in the old Tiffany Plaza shopping area near Whole Foods market. The business on Colorado Blvd was run by a wonderful woman named Candace who was killed in a car crash (2013 I believe) by a drug dealer who was trying to escape Denver police in a car chase. Candace was SOOOO very knowledgeable about birds and I miss her, her great staff, the store’s kitty cat and the store itself very much. I tried to go in for the first time today to the store on Hampden, near the Fresh Fish company. As I walked in, the employee working there, Briana, was on the phone with either the manager or franchisee talking about birdseed and did not bother to acknowledge me until I said hello to her after she got off the phone (4 – 5 minutes). She managed to stay behind the counter the whole time while I had asked my questions about a specific feeder that I was looking for. She gave one suggestion, but then was too concerned about the phone ringing again (the same person she was chatting with earlier). Rather than say, «Excuse me, I will just grab this and be back with you in a moment, please», she just kind of gave up on helping me and answered the phone like there was just nothing else she could do. Look, I don’t expect everyone to be sunshine and rainbows when helping a customer, but expecting at least a little bit of interest in helping me would be rather nice. After today, I have pretty much decided to regulate myself from now on to purchasing seed at the Big Tool Box in Littleton (I got them to carry a super low millet seed mix called Western Patio that I heard about from Dave’s Songbird Way shop in Parker) and accessories and feeders from garden centers like The Flower Bin, Tagawa’s, O’Tooles, etc and online. Wild Bird Centers have really gone downhill and it’s too bad since many of us still like to enjoy the birds. Just my $ 0.02.