For the birds

Let's say you are in the basement sitting at the computer trying to catch up on blog reading and you hear a mysterious noise coming from your fireplace. Having heard this sound before you are pretty certain that an unfortunate bird has somehow found it's way down the chimney and into your fireplace. What do you do?

Well, first you run upstairs and get your camera so you can blog about it later. When I first noticed him, he was perched right inside the fireplace door and you could see him through the glass. Of course when I came back with the camera he was hiding among the logs and paper. I kept waiting for him to find his way out and fly at me like something you would see in a movie. A scary bird movie.

Lucky for mister bird we found him before he succomed to the dirty fireplace he found himself in. Actually according to my daughter it was probably a girl bird,not a mister bird. I thought, no, only a male creature could find himself in this kind of predicament. He was probably trying to show off for the lady birds.

Seeing as how I am so brave, and things like this never happen when my hubby is around to take care of them, I had to remove most of the logs and paper from the fireplace before the bird made his escape. He came flying out and I of course screamed. He then did what any smart bird would do. He flew out an open window I had ready for him.

The last unfortunate bird that found itself in our fireplace wasn't so smart. He probably died later either of a heart attack because my son and I had to literally chase him out the open window, or he died from inhaling all the ashes that he stirred up after he found himself trapped in a fireplace. He obviously did not live long enough to warn other birds to stay away from our bird eating chimney.