Help!! There's a bird in my house!

[helptheresabird]

I've name changed because this might put me to anyone I tell about this incident!

There is currently a bird in my house that I want to remove. It's about the size of a blackbird but brown (female blackbird?) and I have no idea how it got in as the windows and doors are all shut. We had heard some scratching noises in the walls yesterday on the top floor so thought they might be nesting on the roof/in the loft space, but as far as I can tell there is no way for them to get through to the house from there!

Anyway, how do I catch it and get it out? It has got stuck between a window and the blinds which are down but opened, so it is getting tangled in the slats. This is the only window in that bedroom so there isn't another I can try to let it out of. I've shut the bedroom door to contain it but can just hear this constant flapping against the blinds and I'm afraid to go back in! Do I need some sort of net to catch it with?

If it's completely tangled in the blinds, you can put your hand over its back to stop wings flapping and untangle it, then put it outside. Can it fly?

If it's not tangled, put a towel over it, scoop it up and take it outside.

Landlord?! It’s not a fucking albatross.

Lift blinds and open window
Give the poor thing a chance at surviving before it dies of fright.

I have the same bird in my house on a regular basis. Its a red eyed pigeon so it's fairly large. Well it's bigger than it used to be as it started visiting as a baby, or as it a much smaller size then. It just walks in the back door. If I am in the kitchen when it walks in I just say hello and usually it turns around and leaves. But if I am not there I find it in the lounge or in one of the bedrooms. Or the dogs tell me where it is if it sneaked past them too.

I have saved this bird from two dogs more times that i can count.

Just get a towel and lay it over in gently. They freeze and then just open the window and sort of throw it out if you like, not sure how to word that better. Encourage it out I suppose i should say...

Sometime I just open the window where it is sitting and it makes it way out.

Sometimes he has been and I don't even know but I just find droppings on the window sill.

Its a funny bird. I really should name it.

I would be more perturbed by where it came from more than how you are going to get it out.

@Stressheadme123

Sorry OP. I hope you get it out soon.

Poor little bird. If it's a black bird it's mate will be missing it - they mate for life.

Just open the window! What's your landlord going to do that you can't? It'll take you approximately 10 seconds! Quicker than it's taken you to read this post.

Do you know, I really despair sometimes. I mean, how do people deal with life on a day to day basis if they can't even open a window to let a bird out.
Just open the window!
Yes, I may sound unsympathetic, but, honestly.

If I were a landlord and someone called me because there was a small bird in the property I would piss myself 😂

Put the towel over YOUR head, run into the room, open the window...

Oh, well, silly me, just noticed that this was a couple of hours ago now, so I would imagine it's either free or you are wondering what to do with its corpse.

Put the towel over YOUR head, run into the room, open the window...

Best advice so far

Did you get it out in the end?

😂😂
I am laughing at this thread, but in all honesty I am terrified of birds!
We once had one in the kitchen and I locked myself in the living room for hours! I then worked up enough courage to check if it had gone. It hadn’t so I went and knocked on my neighbour for help. When he came in he was pissing himself laughing because it was tiny 😂 the size of a robin.
He still takes the piss out of me now!

Good luck op.

God I would HATE this

I know I'm pathetic, but I'm terrified of it for some reason! I need the landlord to figure out how it got in and seal up any holes/the chimney, and I can hear another one inside the wall so I want him to check that out too.

Anyway, I managed to go in and open the window - it has got free from the blind and was just sitting on the floor, still alive, so I went past holding a big towel in case it moved and just opened the blinds and window and ran back out and closed the door. I haven't been back to check if it's exited the building or not, I'm too traumatised by the whole thing, and by the noise of the other one up in the loft or wherever it is!

This reminds me of when an injured bird dropped inside by neighbours cat screeched across the floor making an awful noise and nearly got past Ds as he looked the wrong way out the living room door.

Good luck op.

Same here 1happyhippie.

I know it’s illogical but little flappy birds actually give me the heebie jeebies.

Well done op. I found it pretty bad I can’t say I did anything useful. Luckily 14 year old Ds was better at getting it out.

The bird will be very frightened
Go in the room with a t towel
Close the door behind you
Open the window
If the bird isn't tangled in the blind, you could try dropping the t towel on it so that you can release it out of the window, but if you leave it in the room with the window open it will find its way out
If you can't do this, try to get someone round to help, it could injure itself in the blind
If you're near me I'll pop round and do it

Hope it makes its way out. I love blackbirds- we have a family of them in our garden. Mum works very hard at nest building time.

You’re traumatised?! good god!

I'd be the same. We had one in our laundry room, madness

I've got 5 in my house.
One is currently climbing on my foot, and two of the others are practicing their red arrow display at the fly past stage.
They won't hurt you more than a peck.

Let us know what happens, and if the landlord discovers how the bird got in.

I would be incredibly stressed in this situation.

I remember several years ago I got home from work to find a woodpecker in the kitchen, sitting calmly on the window cill. No idea how it got into the house. The only options were either down the chimney, but I'd have expected to see some soot, and there wasn't any, or through the cat flap in the jaws of one of our cats, but there were no loose feathers.

Fortunately it was in the summer and I just opened all the doors and windows and it found its own way out.

I've also had smaller birds brought in by cats and have gone for the 'throw a small towel over it and carry it out' approach.

I can’t believe you’ve called your landlord and you refuse to open the window.

I’ve read some really disgusting things on here over the past 11 years but you OP are a special brand of cruel.

Tippexy she has opened the window now.