A few days ago, my wife Lora decided it was time for a change so she opened our front door and took off a snowman decoration. As she tossed it on the floor inside the door, a bird flew out. Specifically, a wren. We grabbed a couple of blankets and chased that poor thing from room to room. It was starting to tucker out when we got lucky. Lora opened the back door while the bird was in the corner of our den. We were able to funnel it right out the door. High fives all around.
Hear Diane and me talking about it on the WIKY Morning Show to Go podcast here –
https://omny.fm/shows/wiky-morning-show-to-go/theres-a-bird-in-the-house
Plenty of us have had wildlife appear in the house; usually in the middle of the night and always a problem getting whatever it is out. Heard from a few waking up to a bat in the bedroom. It happened to Diane. I’d freak. I’d also freak over snakes in a toilet but have only read about that. Although my friend Jeffrey opened a kitchen cabinet and found a snake wrapped around a pot. What did he do? He grabbed it! Yeah. And it bit him, too. Thankfully it wasn’t poisonous. Who reacts like that? If it were my cabinet, we’d move.
For a bird in the house an interesting suggestion was opening your garage doors (both from the house and the main door,) turning on the lights in the garage but turning off all the lights in the house will draw the bird toward the light and back outside. Makes sense. But I can also see us running into each other and the furniture in the dark.
Have you ever had a critter turn up in your family room? How did you handle it?
Actual snowman. Not actual wren.
