Critter in our ducts

[Mik]

THE PLOT THICKENS!

We heard it rumbling around and were sure he was caught in the trap. So we pulled up the vent cover and viola!

It was a Grackle!!!

How the heck a Grackle got into our heating ducts I will have to investigate.

Well, I wasn’t going to whack an innocent bird’s head with a hammer, so I took him outside and poured vegetable oil on the trap, which dissolves the glue. After a few minutes he was mostly loose and flapping, I used the string to pull the trap off his last talon and away he went…on foot. He’s got some oil on him and I hope he can shake it off eventually, but he managed to get himself over the fence to some shelter so he may be ok.

[George K]

Wow. Did he come down a chimney or something?

[blondie]

Great work! Bye bye!

[Horace]

Glad you freed him. Reminds me of the time a bird got into the covered fireplace.

[Mik]

@George-K said in Critter in our ducts:

Wow. Did he come down a chimney or something?

I have to think he got into the attic somehow and pecked a hole in the flexible heating ducts, then fell through. My HVAC guys are going to have a look.

[Catseye3]

Good for you. You gave the best assistance you could.

[mark]

Nice rescue!

[89th]

Well done @Mik … The only person more friendly to the environment than @Horace and @89th!

[Horace]

@89th said in Critter in our ducts:

Well done @Mik … The only person more friendly to the environment than @Horace and @89th!

It's really gratifying to see our leadership bearing fruit.

[Copper]

If a bird pulls a stunt like that in my house he probably won't survive.

I like birds and everything, but he probably just wouldn't make it.

[Catseye3]

@Copper said in Critter in our ducts:

If a bird pulls a stunt like that in my house he probably won't survive.

I remember the snake.

[George K]

Bears repeating...

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/the_new_coffee_room/viewtopic.php?p=537612#p537612

[Jolly]

Never had grackle.

You fry them or make a gumbo?

[Catseye3]

@Jolly said in Critter in our ducts:

You fry them or make a gumbo?

Grackle Jack.

[Mik]

@Horace said in Critter in our ducts:

@89th said in Critter in our ducts:

Well done @Mik … The only person more friendly to the environment than @Horace and @89th!

It's really gratifying to see our leadership bearing fruit taking wing.

FIFY