Help! Bird in my house!

[padams]

Help! I opened the doors to my house this morning to get some fresh air inside because we had some painting done this week. A bird flew in, and is now in my kitchen. Any advice on how to get the bird out? All of my doors and windows are open but the kitchen windows don't open. Thank you!!!

 

[EsmeraldaX]

Chase him, he'll fly out eventually. Birds are pretty timid and don't really like to be around people so I think he'll just leave on his own quickly...

Maybe leave some birdseed out on your lawn, or porch, to attract him to the outdoors.

Or if you have a net available to you, you could try to net him, but birds are very delicate and he could get hurt.

 

[poohtown]

go get your camera or video camera!!! Whenever I get my camera to take a picture of something, it leaves or finishes right away.


actually a few years ago we had a pheasant in the house. LOL - darn dog scared him in. He was pretty shaken up so I was able to just pick him up and take him out. Hopefully if you leave the window open, he'll get out on his own.

 

[dizneenut]

We had a bird in our house a couple years ago. Totally freaked me out. After trying to shoo it out for about 10 minutes, it finally flew out on its own.

 

[edcrbnsoul]

A friend of ours had a duck in their house she didnt know it was there until she sat down to go to the bathroom, and she hears this quacking and there is a duck in her bathtub!! She screams her 2 dogs are barking to get in, the duck's freaking out, she cant get up. she finally chased it out, but she has no idea how the duck got in she thinks she left her screen door open to get something and the duck wandered in.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Close all the door and windows, making sure all the windows are dark (blinds, shades, drapes, whatever), open one door, making sure it is well lit from the outside, somehow chase/scare the bird into that room with the open door.

 

[JESW]

Good luck!

That would be normal around here. Right now I've got 10 of them loose in this room. Two of the three cockatiels are on the curtain rod above me trying to figure out how they can both land on me. The budgies have been doing their usual fly-arounds - some coming rather close....

Jill

 

[HauntedMansionGeek]

Originally posted by edcrbnsoul
A friend of ours had a duck in their house she didnt know it was there until she sat down to go to the bathroom, and she hears this quacking and there is a duck in her bathtub!! She screams her 2 dogs are barking to get in, the duck's freaking out, she cant get up. she finally chased it out, but she has no idea how the duck got in she thinks she left her screen door open to get something and the duck wandered in.

QUACK!!!


Great story!!

 

[padams]

Thanks everybody! I think the bird is gone. I didn't see it fly out (because I retreated upstairs to my computer to read the Dis boards!) but I can't find it. Of course, I'm afraid to look too hard in case it is hiding behind something...I would probably jump to the ceiling in fear. I think I will leave the back door near the kitchen open for a while.

I did check to see that DSs' hamster and fish were still in the kitchen. Glad to see the bird didn't stop in for a snack!

 

[Nancy]

I had a bird in the house once. It was when we owned a double and it was in the upstairs hallway. I am deathly afraid of birds so i called the police! They thought I was pretty funny until they tried to get it out. When it started swooping at them they looked pretty funny running from it. I was shaking from freight when they first showed up. I was shaking with laughter by the time they left....with the bird of course.

hope the bird has taken flight. I would also be afraid to look for it.

 

[wdwgirl03]

We once had a chipmunk in our house. And some people we know once had a deer break through their windows! They had just gotten new furniture.

 

[avdeane]

Glad you were able to get the bird out!! The other night DH and I were laying in bed reading when a bat flew into our bedroom and kept circling the room! I normally am not bothered by a bat but this one kept swooping down at me. Thank goodness DH knocked him down with a pillow and got him out of there!!

 

[Nancy]

A bat!!!! That probably would have put me in the hospital!

 

[Virgo10]

Originally posted by edcrbnsoul
A friend of ours had a duck in their house she didnt know it was there until she sat down to go to the bathroom, and she hears this quacking and there is a duck in her bathtub!! She screams her 2 dogs are barking to get in, the duck's freaking out, she cant get up. she finally chased it out, but she has no idea how the duck got in she thinks she left her screen door open to get something and the duck wandered in.

OMG! That is tooooooo funny!

Roberta

 

[chichihoney]

we had a rabbit in our old house brought in by a cat and a bird once

 

[mickeyboat]

We have had bats in our house several times. It terrifies me. One night we were lying in bed and kept hearing a ticking sond. We turned on the lights and saw a bat! It was flying all around our room, hitting its wings on the slants on the ceiling.

I huddled under the covers until DH chased it out of our room. I shut the kids' doors and went downstairs. We stayed up half the night trying to get this bat out of our house. It ended up getting itself INSIDE our kitchen wall. DH killed it in the wall.

Another time DH sucked one up in the vacuum cleaner. He threw the vacuum out the window and I wouldn't let it back into the house until he had opened the bag to make sure the bat was dead.

I hate the thought of having to kill the bats, but they would not leave the house, even when we opened the door and turned on all the lights.

We were destined to have bats in our lives. There was a bat flying around the church on our wedding day. DH and the ushers caught it under a collection basket and released it outside.

Denae
a.k.a. Batwoman