Last night as I was laying on the couch watching Bill O'Reilly, I suddenly realized all the flapping sound I was hearing was not only from his mouth!
There was obvoiusly a bird caught in the fireplace! After carefully pushing the glass doors apart, and trying to look up, I realized "something" had fallen down the chimney and did not seem able to get thru that little swingy part. Suddenly I saw some yellow tail feathers....and knew one of the little flickers that has been entertaining me in the yard had perched in the wrong place!
It seemed to be afraid to just drop down. I closed the doors back up...sat a lamp down so it could see an available opening. It broke my heart to know he was in there...but he soon quit thrashing and I assumed he'd just quieted down for the night...I left the light on just in case.
This a.m.....no sign of him.....then suddenly there he was!
He was pretty dusty, and sure was scared, but I was able to catch the little fella and let him go! BOTH of us were pretty dusty!................p
I felt bad, but what can you do? We did make sure to replace the screening around the top of the chimney pipe , so the birds couldn't fly in and get trapped again.