It's in my living room which is too bright to herd him out, has a 12 foot high ceilings with built in perches so I can't wait him out. Please send help.
Update: cancel the air strike. It either got back out or my cat killed it. If it's any consolation I'm leaning toward got back out since my roommate just got home with his dog and the dog doesn't currently have a dead bird in her mouth.
Stuck in here with them and the household cat, apparently. Which as you can imagine seems to have resolved the situation pretty quickly :knifecat:
Last bird in the house incident she was totally indifferent. That bird also played way more safe though. This guy was a risk taker.
Bird stuck in the ceiling, eh? Now you're talkin' my language. What you gotta do is get another bird and tie a string to its leg. Then let it go up in the ceiling with the first bird so that they become codependent, and then pull the string to reel in the second bird, and the first one will follow it.
This actually happened before, two years ago when I first moved in and those exact words were the first suggestion I had. Just throw more birds at the problem.
Open windows and set an attractive bird decoy outside it will want to fuck
A larger Chad bird has swooped down and put it's wing around the decoy's shoulder
Much like how mules can't walk backwards, birds cannot fly downwards. True facts. You'll have to cut a hole in your ceiling.
Do you have bird food or bread or something? Open a window, put that on the windowsill, then scare it out when it goes to eat it
All the windows in that room are sealed for the winter. It's a 100 year old house
No idea. There was a blizzard last night and my house is super old so who knows?
might want to check for holes
could put the bird bait out of a door, then scare it out
repeat until you run out of house
I think my cat killed it or injured it a lot cause it's MIA now.
She's not big on showing off so I don't know if there's a dead bird in my living room or not now. Or it's gone into survival mode and it's hunting me.
The bird is currently setting log traps and spike pits and covering itself in mud like Arnold in Predator. Expect to hear its war bellow when it challenges you shortly .
ok but does the bird know that
or is the bird preparing for war :comrade-birdie:
Stomp, clap, stomp stomp, clap!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8TTqVwOzXkU
Unless you're a Disney princess, I can attest this does not work. All you get is the bird looking at you like this :visible-disgust:
That sounds like a personal Saw scenario for me. Not the worst one I could imagine, but I really wouldn't like it
I often have to chase down and catch birds to release them outside. I usually use a towel and a broom and swearing.
Did this a couple years ago. Due to the size of the room and convenient 10ft perches everywhere it takes four people to do that.
You gotta turn out all the lights (block out the windows too) then open the door, should fly out on its own toward the light.
I think my cat handled it. I literally don't have enough blinds for that. This room is huge and opens up to the rest of the house. I live in a spooky mansion that was haphazardly cut into flats.
I think my cat handled it
That sounds ominous :knifecat:
Is the bird OK ?
Edit: just saw your other comment. The answer seems to be "probably not". Sounds like an "indoor cat meets outdoor world" scenario.
From experience entering the flat of a friend the cat of which had killed a seagull wandering on their balcony (how ?! they're huge here, the size of a cat, I saw one eating a pigeon once, but apparently he managed to do it), you should be seeing feathers everywhere. If not, the bird probably escaped or is still hiding somewhere inside.
I'm hoping it got out. This was a pretty small bird so it's possible she got a clean kill.
should fly out on its own toward the light
Come back to me bird, don't go towards the light :president-parrot:
Had to scroll through 10 posters doing bits before I found the correct answer.
at least it wasn't an azhdarchid pterosaur stuck in your house
All I'm thinking of is the birdshit that must now be everywhere
That's the thing though- you don't see it yet. I've had tiny sparrows fly in through an open window a couple of times, and even though they only spent max 10 minutes inside before I managed to shoo them back outside I still ended up finding birdshit on top of bookshelves and behind potted plants days later
Well, I'm glad we don't really have any pourous surfaces in there
