11-28-2004, 10:14 PM
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here and there
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Western NY
Posts: 3,601
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Originally Posted by rabbit
Oh boy, I can't tell you how many times I have pulled something out of thin air.
One of my favs was when a Starling flew down our chimney. I opened the flue but he wouldn't come out. I had to come up with a way to get the bird out without hurting it. So, I climbed onto the roof and lowered a rope with a plastic lid tied to the end of it. The lid acted as a "pusher" to force the bird to walk out of the flue.
Once it was in the house, catching it was fairly easy.
rabbit
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what? lighting a fire below it was not an option?  I am sure it would have vacated the premises out the top of the chimney. 
Hopefully you now have a proper chimney cap on there (they are actually a really good idea just in case your chuimney were to ever catch on fire, they keep the embers off the roof!)
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