Well this has been a strange day.

[VictoriaBun]

Having my morning coffee this morning as per usual in the front room. Where I can hear a scratchy noise. It seemed to be coming from the ceiling near the fire place ( boarded off )
My nightmare thoughts were mice, rats, or squirrels.
Noise would go quiet for awhile, then start again. Me being me avoidance on possibilities, go off to have a shower. Then have a cup of tea in the kitchen with the radio on. Got brave and went back in for a listen. Phew, all quiet.
Nope starts up again, so now the house gets a good clean and Hoover to block out the scratch.
A few hours pass, all quiet in the house - except for the scratchy noise.
Contemplate going out but phone the dh instead at work, suggesting he takes a half day and comes home.
He does, listens to noise, goes off to attic to investigate. We decide to take off boarding on fireplace. Nothing much in there except a few sticks.
Dh goes off to get something bendy and long, has a poke about and down flutters a pigeon !
Said pigeon is now loose in my living room. We manage to catch the bugger and put it outdoors . So much for a relaxing day at home. Hope yours has been better

Its much worse if they die in there. Knew someone who got a room full of flies due to a dead bird down a chimney

You saved a life today :) Lucky pigeon

At least it wasn't rats :)

Coo l!!

Mum had that happen once with jackdaws in the chimney.

Honestly, I would have to emigrate!

I’ve had this happen but with a magpie, DH hid in the kitchen with the kids (he does spiders I do birds 😂) whilst I ran about trying to catch it and get it out of the window 😂 Hopefully your next day off is not as eventful!

Thanks. I am a bit on ' high alert ' for noises today roll on going back to work

Friends of ours heard similar noises which eventually turned out to be a pigeon behind the panel along the side of their bath!! They never worked out how it got in there.

How did you manage to catch the pigeon? I'm picturing 'Catch him Derry!' 🐦

I had a very confusing conversation with my neighbour this morning about dcat's behaviour and the colour of her eyes Eventually established we both have cats named Tabitha but then she berated me for naming my non-tabby cat, Tabitha. Apparently all grey cats should be called Grace! I weakly replied that my Tabitha has half a tabby tail and therefore is allowed the name Tabitha. You couldn't make this shit up 😹

I know someone who did this with an owl! And a friend in the US with a possum!

Happened to us last summer. Poor animal died in there, no way of getting to it without breaking the interior.
Christ, the flies.

In a chimney there a kind of ledge before it then goes up and out. My dh got a long stick and waggled it about which must have freaked the pigeon to try to get away. Luckily it came down instead of up, flew into the room, sort of crashed into the wall and settled on the back of the sofa. We threw a towel over it to calm it down, and dh out it outside. It say on our tree getting over it I guess then when we checked again had flew away it did shit on my sofa

We've had birds fall down the chimney a few times. So far, blackbird (female), blue tit, jackdaw (in that order). The jackdaw was the worst, it smashed a wine glass and shat on our sofa and was a complete bugger to get out of the window. Also terrifying beak on it, and much bigger than I'd previously thought up close. I thought Corvids were the cleverest birds but the blue tit was the fastest to figure out the exit.

We really need to get the chimney capped.