Bird in Chimney
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On Jun 12, 9:40�pm, TD wrote:
Red Green wrote
innews:Xns9ABBD7F725ADCRedGreen@216
.168.3.70:
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 call
ed 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 h
im 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. ï¿
½Seems it was
only knocked out and came back to life outside. �I got a chimney c
over soon
after.
wait till late summer after all babies are gone........
parents will have likely left to, then install cap.
FYI Followup:
This was the course I took. No need to wait until late summer.
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