We've got an unfortunate starling stuck in the house

[conuly]

Hopefully, once it's calmed down and now that we've removed the cat, it'll leave for the outside. I've helpfully refilled the birdfeeders. And speaking of birdfeeders, I was making myself breakfast today and was completely distracted by the sight of a redbellied woodpecker just sitting on a branch! It eventually made its way to the suet for its own breakfast. My eggs burned, but I have no regrets.

Edit: The bird was determined to hunker down and wait us out, so I had to shoo it with a broom. Poor thing!

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Comments

[historicalmuse]

Lol 😂 cats (=^ェ^=) and ⋛⋋(◐⊝◑)⋌⋚ birbs don't get along too well.. Nice find. ☝︎☝︎☝︎☝︎

[cactuswatcher]

Critters like being inside the house. My mother and I (about eight years old) had to chase a very dirty duck that fell down the fireplace chimney around the house one summer day. It never realized the open front door was its escape. It got tired. My mother picked it up and tossed it out a nearby window with no screen I'd opened. Same thing happened years later when my mother and father were out for the evening, a bat came down the chimney. I had no desire to grab it! It wasn't impressed with my attempts to block off parts of the house. (The living room had no doors just doorways.) I was full grown, but it was hard to herd because it could merrily skim just over the top of my outstretched fingers. Eventually it got tired and landed on a cloth on a table. I flipped the remainder of the cloth over it, and carried it outside to release it.

[conuly]

The bat would've worried me! That's how that girl got rabies, the one who got better.

[hilarita]

Birds in the house can be such a pain - they realise it's not the big open sky, and if you're lucky they go and roost somewhere and can be gently shooed out. The worst ones flap around, crap everywhere, and need to be shooed more assertively, and then I feel really really bad about it, even though the end state is what both bird and human desire!

[conuly]

Poor baby kept flying into the wrong window and bonking itself. It's, like, there's an open window RIGHT HERE.

It was eventually tired enough to rest on the window it was at, so I could open it a bit and nudge it out.