On Jun 12, 9:40�pm, TD wrote:
Red Green wrote :

There was no screen cover on this HUD Wreck I've been working on and I
failed to put one on right after getting it. I hear an adult bird in
there now. Goes in and out. It's a straight shot up.

Will smoking em with some newspaper and maybe pinecones get em to
vacate a bit while I run up and put a cover on ya think? Don't wanna
really light a regular fire since it's been hovering around 100 the
past 10 days if ya know what I mean.

Please, no cracks about bats in my belfry :-)

If you throw in burning stuff, it'll kill the babies and they'll be left
inside to smell up the place.

Yeah, if you light a regular fire, that means opening the damper and
possibly the critters will come in your house.

One winter I had the pilot light go out on my gas furnace. �I called the
furnace people to light it for me....new homeowner and didn't know what to
do. �The guy looked inside and found a dead bird. �I had him put it in a
cardboard box and then i put the box outside to deal with the dead bird
later. �I went out 20 minutes later and the bird was gone. �Seems it was
only knocked out and came back to life outside. �I got a chimney cover soon
after.

wait till late summer after all babies are gone........

parents will have likely left to, then install cap.