There was a bird in my den when I got home today.

[burythehatchet]

I have had a morbid phobia of birds since age 5.

It made me really angry when I went for my beer and fucking bird slapped me in the face. I almost pissed.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

1. I've heard finding a bird in your home...

is an omen for impending death.
I came home one day and found a dead robin in my toilet. Freaked me out!!!!!

[burythehatchet]

2. That's comforting, thanks.

;)

[BlackVelvetElvis]

3. Glad to be of some comfort!

:P

[MissRegina]

4. What Kind of Bird Was It?

Do you know?

[burythehatchet]

8. I think its a black bird, but I don't know

these brids are plentiful in East Tenn. They are thin and long and have skinny wings. They really suck. Like all birds.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

16. Does he have shiny feathers?

Is his song more of a screechy croak rather than a whistle?

I wonder if it's a grackle...

[burythehatchet]

17. That's the shape. But its a duller black

[izzie]

18. Genetic as they cross breed and we now have one bird type.

They have mated an Eagle with a crow and we now have one big black bird that talks alot and eats the scarecrow.

[northofdenali]

5. Shades of Alfred Hitchcock!!

I adore birds, but I can imagine your shock. How did it get in?

[MissRegina]

6. To Add to northofdenali's post

How did you get it out?

[burythehatchet]

13. I got my pool skimming pole

extended it to the maximum. knocked over and broke a lamp. pushed it and nudged it. it got up and flew into the blinds. saw the door open and took off. it was a happy ending for all. but now I'm afraid I'm going to find a poop somewhere

[burythehatchet]

10. There's a bunch in my chimney

when I hear their wings flapping I burn a bunch of paper to smoke em out. But last night I left the flue open. That's how.

[Demobrat]

7. Poor little thing.

Make sure you close your drapes or it will fly into the glass trying to get out and get hurt.

[burythehatchet]

11. It flew into a big mirror and I tripped over my sofa in my panic

it was injured. I was pissed

[Demobrat]

14. I love birds and raise them.

They are sweet little things, really.

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. Do you have a fireplace?

They can come down the chimney. Get a critter cover for the chimney if you have a fireplace, also one for the furnace chimney.

Had the same damn thing happen to me a couple years ago (through the fireplace), got critter covers three days later.

[burythehatchet]

12. There is one of those covers. but its off kilter

and the roof is really high up.

[greatauntoftriplets]

15. I am told they need very little room to get in.

Hope it doesn't crap all over the place.

The time I had the bird in the house, I got a male neighbor to come and help (poor guy, it was about 8 a.m. on a Saturday morning). He bashed at it with a baseball cap. Open doors and whatever window you can and bash at the bird with whatever you can.

Good luck.