Bird trapped in fireplace/ chimney! Help!

[missyB1]

Have come down this morning to hear cheeping behind my fitted gas fire
There’s definitely something behind there. What on earth can I do? I can’t remove the fire it has to be a gas engineer.
Apparently if you don’t get them out they die and then cause an awful smell and potentially flies / bluebottles etc
But this is the wrong time to be trying to get a gas engineer to come into your house isn’t it?!

no get a gas engineer out we had a pidgeon behind our gas fire and I couldn't in all conscience leave it there to die it took him about ten minutes to remove the fire get the bird out and put the fire back you don't have to be in the room while he does it

Thanks yes I will try and get someone.

We had a pigeon behind our gas fire years ago. We called British Gas and they sent out the Emergency Gas who cut our gas off until we could get someone from British Gas out .

So we had 48 hours of no heating . With two young DC ( I think they were under 6 ) and a bloody pigeon that was dead by the time they took the fire out

This was because once they were alerted they couldn't take the risk of us putting the fire on (even though we wouldn't have done , I suppose they have to assume about everyone that they might)
We got those chimney pot covers fitted straight after . (Which you won't be able to do right now , obvs)

No advice but when this is done, have chimney covers installed, it’s like a metal grate that sits on top of the chimney and prevents anything flying down it.

We have bats, so still get them coming down the chimneys, its the little babies only come who come down, they fall off their mothers tummies when she’s flying,, or crawl along, and fall then, but rather disturbingly, they fall and pop out suddenly on the floor in front of the wood burners with a thud.

I can tell you it’s not remotely cute or sweet.