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Decent Outcome to the murdered baby birds - chopper - 05-21-2023
As I suggested there was something in my house. I suspected that it was a fox or squirrel caught in the dryer vent.
I left my dog in the laundry room to see if she could find out where the noise was coming from. She indicated that it was actually in the exhaust for the boiler.
So I took the screws out of the sheet metal, grabbed a 1/2 ratchet to use as weapon to beat it to death and took it apart.
Low and behold, we took it apart and it was the mom bird. She must have gotten so scared by whatever ate her kids she flew into the chimney (I knew I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque!) then into the boiler exhaust where she could not get back out.
It was funny, we pulled all sheet metal off, and she just walked over to the edge looking at us like "What the hell took you so long??". We opened the window quick knocked out the screen and she flew out.
Birds don't have faces but you should have seen the look on her face when we took the last sheetmetal part off. It was funny.
Re: Decent Outcome to the murdered baby birds - Acer - 05-21-2023
:woot:
Re: Decent Outcome to the murdered baby birds - gadje - 05-21-2023
how come she didn't die in the boiler exhaust?
and what kind of bird?
Re: Decent Outcome to the murdered baby birds - chopper - 05-21-2023
gadje wrote:
how come she didn't die in the boiler exhaust?
and what kind of bird?
Because it's summer and the boiler isn't needed to heat the house???! Hence it does not turn on?
A small brownish black bird with beady eyes.
Re: Decent Outcome to the murdered baby birds - gadje - 05-21-2023
I thought the boiler also heats the water.
Re: Decent Outcome to the murdered baby birds - Black - 05-22-2023
chopper wrote:
[quote=gadje]
how come she didn't die in the boiler exhaust?
and what kind of bird?
Because it's summer and the boiler isn't needed to heat the house???! Hence it does not turn on?
A small brownish black bird with beady eyes.
I can't say what the liberated bird was but the nest was a House Finch nest. Your description could fit female House Finch (remember the Bernie Sanders bird?)