Eastern Bluebird dilemma
Feb 23, 2020 22:13:28 #
For the second time in just over a month, I had to free a bluebird from the wood burning insert of my fireplace. This time, Wendy was home and she was the one who noticed it. She freaked out and ran around the house, closed all the doors and closed herself and our dog in the bedroom. I opened the front and back doors before I opened the wood burning stove door. It finally came out and flew around inside the house before exiting thru the open front door. I guess I’ll have to call a chimney sweep tomorrow.
Feb 23, 2020 23:12:42 #
Feb 24, 2020 08:49:27 #
You have to cover the chimney with chicken wire. I had the same problem once with the chimney from my furnace. Haven’t had the problem since.
Get the smallest wire that you can and maybe double if you have to.
Get the smallest wire that you can and maybe double if you have to.
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Feb 24, 2020 10:25:09 #
Jack47 wrote:
You have to cover the chimney with chicken wire.
Pay attention! It was a bluebird, not a chicken that got down the chimney!
(No offense intended)Feb 24, 2020 10:26:27 #
Thing is, we have lived in this house since 2006 and never had this happen until this year. It’s raining now so I can’t check but we have a cover. Maybe it has a hole in it. One way or another, we need our chimney swept anyway.
Feb 24, 2020 11:04:41 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Pay attention! It was a bluebird, not a chicken that got down the chimney! (No offense intended)
(No offense intended)Bluebird wire is much more expensive. Just ask for a comparison at the hardware store.
Feb 24, 2020 14:42:25 #
Screamin Scott wrote:
Thing is, we have lived in this house since 2006 and never had this happen until this year. It’s raining now so I can’t check but we have a cover. Maybe it has a hole in it. One way or another, we need our chimney swept anyway.
We came back from summer vacation one year and found a dozen or more dead bats clinging to drapes, etc. I'm just glad they weren't alive when we entered the house. They must have gotten in through the chimney. I'll have to get some batwire from the hardware store.
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Feb 24, 2020 17:06:09 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Pay attention! It was a bluebird, not a chicken that got down the chimney! (No offense intended)
(No offense intended)No offence taken, but they don’t make a bluebird wire.....no offence intended.....and the chicken wire will do the trick. 😄😄😄
Feb 24, 2020 17:21:14 #
Unusual for Bluebirds. I won't cap my chimney as each Spring I have chimney swifts move in. They make a racket when they are raising the young but I like them. The wife doesn't. They are tremendous aerial acrobats and eat a ton of bugs. I would usually get one a year fall into the fireplace insert. The babies I would have to make a wire coat hanger loop and reach them back up to the nest level. Then we got rid of the insert and I put fiberglass insulation into the damper opening. None since.
I had a duck - a grown duck- come down the flue into the lower fireplace pipe stem once. Heard it scratching the stove pipe metal. Pulled it out, cradled to show the wife upstairs and even carried it next door to show the neighbor. Figured it tried to land on the chimney top and tumbled down.
I had a duck - a grown duck- come down the flue into the lower fireplace pipe stem once. Heard it scratching the stove pipe metal. Pulled it out, cradled to show the wife upstairs and even carried it next door to show the neighbor. Figured it tried to land on the chimney top and tumbled down.
Feb 25, 2020 15:16:53 #
jerryc41 wrote:
We came back from summer vacation one year and found a dozen or more dead bats clinging to drapes, etc. I'm just glad they weren't alive when we entered the house. They must have gotten in through the chimney. I'll have to get some batwire from the hardware store.
I always got my dead bats from the sporting goods store. They never clung to anything, though. I had to hold them pretty tight.
Feb 25, 2020 15:54:44 #
Got the Chimney Sweep coming on Monday to clean & inspect the chimney...
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