poor bird

corey · Post by **corey** » Fri. Feb. 08, 2019 8:32 pm

Lit the stove tonight turns out a bird was alive above baffle i tried my best to give him fast death luckily the fire took right off.

grumpy · Post by **grumpy** » Fri. Feb. 08, 2019 9:26 pm

Why do they fly down the pipe into darkness..

2001Sierra · Post by **2001Sierra** » Fri. Feb. 08, 2019 9:34 pm

Last one I found years ago came down 8 inch terra cotta liner 20 some feet down, was in the fall and was almost a skeleton.

gaw · Post by **gaw** » Fri. Feb. 08, 2019 10:33 pm

I woke early one morning,
the earth lay cool and still
when suddenly a tiny bird
perched on my window sill.

He sang a song so lovely
so carefree and so gay,
that slowly all my troubles
began to slip away.

He sang of far off places
of laughter and of fun,
It seemed his very trilling,
brought up the morning sun.

I stirred beneath the covers
crept slowly out of bed,
and gently lowered the window
and crushed his *censored* head.

warminmn · Post by **warminmn** » Sat. Feb. 09, 2019 12:21 am

Almost every time it happens here its a Starling. Ive opened the stove door more than once to save them, got them outside thru a door or window, and i bet at least half the time they go right back down the chimney again within a day. Be glad its a bird and not a squirrel or a bat.

corey · Post by **corey** » Sat. Feb. 09, 2019 1:56 am

gaw wrote: ↑
Fri. Feb. 08, 2019 10:33 pm

lol

warminmn wrote: ↑
Sat. Feb. 09, 2019 12:21 am
Almost every time it happens here its a Starling. Ive opened the stove door more than once to save them, got them outside thru a door or window, and i bet at least half the time they go right back down the chimney again within a day. Be glad its a bird and not a squirrel or a bat.

Last 3 ive rescued have been blue birds

freetown fred · Post by **freetown fred** » Sat. Feb. 09, 2019 6:57 am

Damn G!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gaw wrote: ↑
Fri. Feb. 08, 2019 10:33 pm

grumpy · Post by **grumpy** » Sat. Feb. 09, 2019 8:35 am

warminmn wrote: ↑
Sat. Feb. 09, 2019 12:21 am
Almost every time it happens here its a Starling. Ive opened the stove door more than once to save them, got them outside thru a door or window, and i bet at least half the time they go right back down the chimney again within a day. Be glad its a bird and not a squirrel or a bat.

Yep, me too..

rberq · Post by **rberq** » Sat. Feb. 09, 2019 9:01 am

corey wrote: ↑
Sat. Feb. 09, 2019 1:56 am
Last 3 ive rescued have been blue birds

A friend who has a stove to heat her greenhouse, found three bluebirds in the stove one spring.

I tried to capitalize on that by making a bluebird house that resembled a chimney cap, but it didn't attract anything.

Another friend found a full-size wild duck, dead, when he was cleaning out the wood stove in the fall.

warminmn · Post by **warminmn** » Sat. Feb. 09, 2019 10:02 am

Out of curiosity are we talking Bluebirds or Bluejays? I can see bluejays doing this is why I ask.

That duck in a chimney almost sounds like a prank I would do to a friend.

mntbugy · Post by **mntbugy** » Sat. Feb. 09, 2019 10:45 am

I always have troubles with the Eastern blue bird. They are a nosey bird.

You chase them out of the stove or the smoke pipe, 20 minutes later they get stuck again.

The birds are just looking for bugs to eat or a safe place for a nest.

I do have 8 blue bird boxes, which are mostly full. Mom,pop and 3or4 babies . Some have 4 broods a year. That is a chit load of little birds.

warminmn · Post by **warminmn** » Sat. Feb. 09, 2019 11:34 am

mntbugy wrote: ↑
Sat. Feb. 09, 2019 10:45 am
I always have troubles with the Eastern blue bird. They are a nosey bird.

You chase them out of the stove or the smoke pipe, 20 minutes later they get stuck again.

The birds are just looking for bugs to eat or a safe place for a nest.

I do have 8 blue bird boxes, which are mostly full. Mom,pop and 3or4 babies . Some have 4 broods a year. That is a chit load of little birds.

Neat! There are Bluebirds around here but Ive never seen one on my homesite. That is why I asked to be sure which one as some people confuse them. There are not very many varieties of birds on my old farm but there are more than when I moved here because of my plantings.

mntbugy · Post by **mntbugy** » Sat. Feb. 09, 2019 11:45 am

I can hear them talking long before I see them. Being half color blind doesn't help. If I see movement in the ends of a tree them I can find them. They really like sitting on power line wires while out mowing grass.

I feed them mealworms on a flat tray in the winter time. Birds were really talking yesterday.

rberq · Post by **rberq** » Sat. Feb. 09, 2019 1:18 pm

warminmn wrote: ↑
Sat. Feb. 09, 2019 10:02 am
Out of curiosity are we talking Bluebirds or Bluejays? I can see bluejays doing this is why I ask.

Bluebirds. Not jays.
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rberq · Post by **rberq** » Sat. Feb. 09, 2019 1:29 pm

warminmn wrote: ↑
Sat. Feb. 09, 2019 11:34 am
There are not very many varieties of birds on my old farm but there are more than when I moved here because of my plantings.

For some reason we have huge amounts of Virginia creeper in my yard. Seems like I have pulled up miles of vines over the years. Birds like the berries. In late fall the robins, which were late leaving for warmer climes, were all over it.
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