Birds in the House

[rareboy]

Yes it is that season again.

A young starling fell down our chimney after the wind dislodged our cap and screen.

Of course it wouldn't just come out....instead it flew up from the basement through the house and ended up in the kitchen pantry....where it sent things flying.

I was able to put a blanket around it once it was back in the window and carry it outside.

Do you ever have birds enter your house?

 

[NotHardUp1]

It has been a few years, but your method is what I deployed, a bath towel if I remember correctly. So many people get the broom or something, and that's just a lost cause. Same for bat catching.

 

[luckynumbah7]

It has been a few years, but your method is what I deployed, a bath towel if I remember correctly. So many people get the broom or something, and that's just a lost cause. Same for bat catching.

I've caught a couple bats inside, they'll hang quite prettily from your pants or your shirt while you walk 'em back outside, so long as you move slow. I just wear gloves, never had an issue.

Birds are another matter.

 

[Cormac135]

A pigeon once flew into my bedroom, it was terrifying, i half hid/half waved it back out.

 

[Vannie]

A pigeon once flew into my bedroom, it was terrifying, i half hid/half waved it back out.

..................

 

[peeonme]

I found a dead bird in a furnace in a home that I lived in years ago, it liked the heat of the flu, but the fumes of the co seemed to have lead to the birds death. The bird flew to the wrong flu.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

^ The bird's name wasn't Enza, was it?

 

[peeonme]

^ The bird's name wasn't Enza, was it?

This Enza sort of dropped in.

 

[luckynumbah7]

I've caught a couple bats inside, they'll hang quite prettily from your pants or your shirt while you walk 'em back outside, so long as you move slow. I just wear gloves, never had an issue.

Birds are another matter.

Although the second one did take about fifteen minutes to recooperate from the fright. Just clung there for a bit - ma had cats, which couldn't have helped the tiny one's nerves.

 

[tarallucci]

It happens, yes. Usually sparrows and robins. I had a pet pigeon in the house.

 

[unloadonme]

I'm gay. This is a bird-free establishment.

 

[frankfrank]

I leave a door wide open, and coax the bird toward it, and eventually the bird notices the brightness and flies toward freedom.

Sometimes one will be trapped on the porch. I open that door to the outside (the porch is screened) and usually, but not always, I can coax the bird to the open door.

At least four or five times I've instead hand-captured the bird from the screen, and released it outside. They have always flown away immediately, not hesitating or paralyzed. I usually talk to it gently first, and perhaps that puts them a little more at ease, but for some reason the birds here in Illinois mostly understand only Cherokee or Bulgarian so they don't get what I'm saying.

Invariably they have always been sparrows. It may not be wise, but I've never had any covering on my hands when handling these birds.

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

Only when we had Parakeets. My Grandma has a few as well and when they got out they use to hide in her jewelry box.

 

[guyfromNY]

It's happened to me several times and the worst part is that one of the walls in my living room is mirrored. This poor bird just kept flying into the mirror over and over until I was finally able to catch it in a towel and evict it.

 

[rareboy]

I've caught a couple bats inside, they'll hang quite prettily from your pants or your shirt while you walk 'em back outside, so long as you move slow. I just wear gloves, never had an issue.

Birds are another matter.

I ended up having to get a series of rabies shots after catching and releasing a bat inside. sigh.

 

[nycguydowntown]

Had a big one come down my chimney on Cape Cod---took a while for me to get it out of the house---it's beak made a whole in my screened door I was told to put a chimney cap on the chimney as it was big-- but being from the city didn't think a bird would actually go down it. Santa yes big bird No.

 

[luckynumbah7]

I ended up having to get a series of rabies shots after catching and releasing a bat inside. sigh.

So you caught it, it nabbed you and then it bolted again? Or you caught it and then released it in the house....? The latter doesn't seem likely unless this is a childhood reminiscence.

 

[Alistair]

I've never had a bird in the house but we have at work. I caught a hummingbird by hand that had got trapped inside. It was making such a weird noise. It was pretty cool holding it in my hand.

 

[Rickrock]

Fortunately, no, never had a bird in the house.

 

[peeonme]

I have had some strange encounters with other animals where I was living. I in my early 20's had rented a big ugly run down place.
I was trying to start a mission type place and help people.
My mother lived with us at the time and her and I were sitting in the dining room at about 5:00AM, it was fall, windy and cold. Someone had neglected to close the front door tight and it didn't latch, a huge gust of wind blew it open and the largest German Shepard that I have ever seen walked in. The huge dog looked around and sniffed the air and walked back out. I quickly shut and locked the door.

The next event was in the same house, I heard a noise from under the kitchen sink. I went over and opened the cabinet door and an Opossum that had crawled up the hole where the drain went through the floor looked me in the eye.