Mastodawn

Oh my goodness, I just went down to make a cup of tea, and ended up rescuing a jackdaw.
My housemate said that the birds had been making lots of noise for a while, and I went and looked outside and saw about 40 corvids flying over the house calling. I couldn't see anything immediately wrong, and thought they might be reacting to a red kite flying close to nests or something. But I heard a flapping noise, and couldn't work out where it was coming from. I looked again, and realised that a... 1/

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Sheepnik 4d ago

jackdaw had somehow got stuck in the gap between two fence panels, with its head on one side and its body on the other. I went and got some oven gloves and a tea towel, and managed to get hold of it, and slide it up through the gap. It squawked at me, so I put it on the ground and it flew off. As it went all the other birds flew off. My heart is still in my mouth. 2/2

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Sue Archer

@sheepnik

Well done! You will be a friend to all corvids now.

I had to rescue a starling once, that had got itself wedged head down in the wire tube of a peanut bird feeder. I had to get wire cutters, cut the tube up one side and bend it open, whereupon the starling looked at me, flapped and flew off.