not an everday occurrence! bird stuck in house

rG-tom · 21 Apr 2006 at 11:05

Well, was downstairs speaking to my mum when i heard a noise from upstairs, went upstairs but found nowt, just assumed it was my guitar shifting slightly (only moved it 10 minutes earlier)....go back down, then hear another noise, look up the stairs and a spadge flies right past my head lol. This scared my mum senseless and made me go "WTF!", she had to leave the house. I went and got my camera then followed it round for 15 minutes before it finally went out the door i opened for it

tried to take some pics but they generally came out a bit out of focus, but the funniest thing i found was it decided to sit on my MS flight sim box

then tried blending in with the fake plants:

and then sat on the windowsill of the old crappy extension looking out into the garden, just chillin'

Flew out the door briefly after this.

Anyone else had to coax a bird out of their house?

Tom.

Six6siX · 21 Apr 2006 at 11:07

We had a pigeon that got stuck in our kitchen once and it took ages to get the bird out the back door again! It was flapping around like crazy on the ceiling.

Nice pics - the last one looks quite cool

Ukadder · 21 Apr 2006 at 11:08

We had a bat years ago. Managed to trap him under an empty shoe box and get rid of him. My brother is now scared of bats.

Bes · 21 Apr 2006 at 11:09

Yeah we have had it twice. Once was a massive blackbird in our breakfast room- it flew around crapping allover the place for ages!!

Second time was a little one in my mum's room.

ThriceNightly · 21 Apr 2006 at 11:09

nice pics

had a pigeon fall down my chimney.....

my first attemt to get it out the chimney resulted in a handful of tail feathers.

when i finally caught it and released it outside it flew straight vertically upwards

....i never saw that pigeon again

SidewinderINC · 21 Apr 2006 at 11:10

we had a bat once, that was weird! hehe.

a pigeon fell down our chimney once, i think ive still got a pic of it somewhere...

theleg · 21 Apr 2006 at 11:11

You checked the carpets for the inevitable turds it did while flying scared round your place?

rG-tom · 21 Apr 2006 at 11:12

Balddog said:
You checked the carpets for the inevitable turds it did while flying scared round your place?

hehe this little fella was actually really chilled, i think i was more scared than him

but ill leave that for my mum when she gets home, it didnt get in my room so i'm cool

Tom.

goldilocks · 21 Apr 2006 at 11:15

i rescued a bird from a clarkes shop in cardiff
it was just sitting on a shoe display and the kids in the shop were going nuts at it, so i picked it up, walked outside and let it go

other than that, we have birds/bats fly into the conservatory glass and french doors - they generally just look a little sheepish (or whatever the avian equivalent is) and fly off again

nice photos btw

Adam_151 · 21 Apr 2006 at 11:16

We have them nesting in our loft above the airing cupboard, they got in through where the gas flu goes through the roof and the flashing is not tight to the tiles, every now and again one falls down into the airing cupboard (no ceiling as such, you can look up and see the roof) and can't get back up again, then when you open the cupboard door it flies out past your face and flaps manically at the kitchen window trying to get through the glass

4T5 · 21 Apr 2006 at 11:21

Sparrows are cool and i am well glad they are making a comeback. :cool:

My bird story freaked the crap out of me.
Heard noise in kitchen went out fished about and it had got into a space between two kitchen cupboards via a vent.
I busted the side open and a blackbird steam me :eek:

of course at this point i screamed like a girl and legged it. The woman at the time wet herself laughing then opened the back door.

Sparrows for the win.

Johnny Girth · 21 Apr 2006 at 11:32

Anyone else had to coax a bird out of their house?

Yep, I used a lambrini bottle on a piece of string. That got rid of her.

NightSt@lk3r · 21 Apr 2006 at 12:15

we had a suicide pigeon that flew into our conservatory and broke its neck :eek:

cheets64 · 21 Apr 2006 at 12:23

Had then fly into the garage and it takes ages to get them out, they fly to the back and think they can fly through the back window in the garage.

LeoWyatt · 21 Apr 2006 at 12:25

Well it wasn't a bird but we did have a bat fly into our kitchen once. Was caught with a tea towel and ejected.

iCraig · 21 Apr 2006 at 12:25

Silly bird, I bet it felt like a right tit.

4T5 · 21 Apr 2006 at 12:27

iCraig said:
Silly bird, I bet it felt like a right tit.

TAXI

rG-tom · 21 Apr 2006 at 21:23

iCraig said:
Silly bird, I bet it felt like a right tit.

wow, i didn't think the puns could get this bad

Tom.

Duke · 21 Apr 2006 at 21:34

We had a bird (blackbird or similar) which came down our chimney.. it was frightned and **** itself over the new carpet

Eventually got it out the door

gord · 21 Apr 2006 at 21:59

Had quite a few birds in our house, one just the other week.

Sometimes its cats and sometimes its other reasons... we feed the birds a lot in our area around our garden and we think they might be venturing in to get more food when their feeders run out...

Other week, cat brought in a bird and came to tell us, thought the thing was scared stiff but i went over to it and it flew straight out the door. I wouldnt attempt picking up a bird without an escape for them.

Worst case scenario, small bird gets trapped in blocked up chimney for winter. We got a washing basket and put that over the chimney exit to trap it, thing was black as and we didnt fancy changing the colour of our cream carpet..