Ok so we had a bird to nest in our closed off fireplace a month or so back. There were 4 baby birdies and the parents. Of the 4 baby birdies 3 flew the coop. We are left with one "baby" bird.
Well... it has all its feathers and can flutter. It keeps making noises in the early morning hours and squawks most of the time. Noisy little bird.
So... yesterday I got fed up with hearing it squawk. And I told hubby to catch it and release it outside.
He catches it and we take it outside, and release it, and about the same time a train was coming by. Hubby placed the bird on a tree branch and then just as the train was coming pass us the bird takes off flying in the direction of the train and nearly misses getting hit!
Then we went back in the house talking about how crazy the bird was and how it almost got it. I went in my room for something came back out, and I heard the squawking AGAIN!! Hubby moved the tin that is blocking off the fireplace to look in there and there the damn annoying bird was back in the fireplace.
We have a chimney cap on the fireplace, but there is like a little area on each side that has like a slit/open spot, and that is how he is getting in there!
SO... now it is either get the bird to leave or fed it to a neighborhood cat
No birds were harmed after the making of this post, and will not be harmed by a cat (I hope).
Looks like you've adopted a little feathery baby!Yeah... good thing I do not have to change diapers for it Ha! Funny. I tell you something. One night my husband was sitting in our "back room" and he saw something from the family room fluttering around. He saw it out of the corner of his eye, didnt think too much about it. Well he finally looked when he heard the flutter. It was a BAT. He opened the front door and it happend to land on the steps going upstairs. He kicked it out the door and came up and told me afterward - luckily. I would have FREAKED and we still never told the kids.
Yeah... I remember when I use to be able to go swimming in the pool, we would go swimming at night and the bats would swoop down to get water while we were in the pool, talk about FREAK OUT!
Oh yeah! I remember the summers at my parents country house the story was that the bats would be attracted by our shampoo and get tangled in our hair. Uck!!!!My Grandma used to tell us that the barnswallows in the nest on her porch would swoop down and peck our eyes out. Now I think she just wanted us to stop running in and out of the house all day. Either way, that was the result.