Help! Bird in bed

[Awittyfool]

So I’ve just been woken by something rustling next to my head. Leap out of bed and it’s a sparrow beside me on the pillow!
Spent 5 minutes eying each other up. I went out the room to get a lid of water and a box but it s gone. It appears to have gone under the bed but the bed is against the wall ( there’s a small gap).
What now? Leave it? Ir try and rescue it ( large heavy bed) and hope it doesn’t go into shock?

Poor thing I'd open the window fully and leave the room. Hopefully it'll find its own way out.

Leave the window open and it'll likely leave in the early morning.

I had the same once with a bat. I decided to try to forget I'd ever seen it. Never saw it again (although did see one roosting on the wall, which I also decided to ignore).

I'd have to move house.

Thanks. Window is wide open although they are stupid modern ones that don’t open properly.
The bed is against the wall under the window so goodness knows how it will get back up.
I’ve put a shallow dish of water under the bed. Will ignore.

@toottootpipip My friend had a bat. Apparently all bats found inside from spring to summer are probably young and in trouble so need to be boxed up and cared for. Like most people, he put it outside. Bat conservation lady gave him a bollocking.

A bollocking from a bat lady?!

Where are you going to sleep?

I had a bat. Towel gently over it and put it outside. Unfortunately tiny birds die quite fast inside

I had the same as a kid when I was in the house alone! Except it was a gigantic bloody Blackbird! I screamed, it flew round the room pooing everywhere and I screamed more.

After a few panicked phone calls, my hilarious uncle turned up with a bloody kids CRAB net on a stick!

open.spotify.com/track/5U28vvBjNFQm0QESzDC2qw?si=6My3pNAXSRq28kIM8-VjQw&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1DZ06evO3HXmxv

Whenever anyone mentions bats this song is the only thing I think of- fucking hilarious

I've had a bat in the house for the last few nights.

It only decides to get active once I've gone to bed and I can't find out where it hides in the day.

I've tried opening the window to let it out but either it's too stupid to find it and fly out or it's too busy snacking on the insects that must come in when the window is open at night.

I wouldn't mind too much if it stayed high but it likes doing low swoops over the bed which is a bit unsettling.

Where I live, there are lots of bats at dusk. You have to be careful because they can get stuck in your hair if they fly into your head. So I've been told.

Oh my, where do you all live where bats casually fly in your homes? Rural?

If I had my windows open tonight, this thread would have made me immediately slam them shut, lock them and throw away the keys.

I think if I found a bird in my bedroom, I’d scream like @AlfietheSchnauzer. But reading that it could die by being left inside is eye opening. With that post above in mind, I’d try my best to coax it outside. Sometimes you’re in a weird situation and think it can’t get worse- potentially dealing with a dead bird is an escalation I wouldn’t want.

😱 I wouldn’t be able to cope with that!

https://www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/wildlife/birds/trapped

Omg I'm here for updates that you're safe that sounds bloody terrifying!!!

Imagine the convo at work tomorrow
Colleague 'did you get a good sleep last night Awittyfool?'
@Awittyfool 'no unfortunately I was co-sleeping with a sparrow...'

Gigantic blackbird? They're only as big as your hand AlfietheSchnauser, including the head and tail. Did you mean a crow? I'd be worried finding one of them next to my pillow, they eat the eyes out of things, even if the things aren't dead yet.

OP it could have come in earlier when you had a window open and you didn't notice it. Be thankful it wasn't a cat. They're heavier than they look and when they walk over you it feels like you're being poked repeatedly and very deliberately with a fairly large blunt stick. Which is initially rather frightening when you don't own a cat!

My first thought!

My idea of hell on earth. I'd have been out of the house faster than Ussain Bolt!
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Where are these places I must never move to?

No sign of the bat tonight so hopefully it found its way out in the day.

I'm in Costa Rica at the moment and the house is on a main road but a few km from the nearest town so semi-rural, I suppose.

No bats at home in the UK.

I’d love a pillow chat with a sparrow!!

Rabies is a real risk with any wildlife/domestic animals in Costa Rica. If you havent been vaccinated you should get advice from a travel medicine expert immediately

bats can scratch your skin and transmit rabies without you realizing it, and if you have slept in a room with a bat, it puts you at very high risk. With rabies you dont have symptoms until its too late to treat it, and then you die.

These are animals which have the object-detection and manoeuvrability skills to be able to identify a fast-moving, tiny insect as being the right kind of prey, and precisely intercept it, in flight.

In the dark.

They're not going to fly into your massive human head. I promise. I guess someone might throw an unconscious bat at your head but it would probably just bounce off.

Aww poor wee thing, hope it gets out safely. I remember coming home a few months ago, walking in to my living room and noticed a tiny sparrow like bird peering out from behind the glass window of our woodburner! Fuck knows how it got in there. Anyway thankfully the stove wasn’t lit. I opened the door and the thing flew out and up onto the curtain pole. It then flew to the kitchen window, so I opened it and the wee thing was straight out and away. Wish I’d taken a photo really as it was pretty surreal.