Unwanted House Guest...

I believe that is the best way to describe it - an unwanted house guest. We finally got them to vacate yesterday afternoon and it only took a sheetrock knife, a drill, some tin snips and a hired expert named Jim. The damage has been repaired and we are none the worse for wear. Curious yet?

We had a bird stuck in the exhaust vent for our stove. And it was a pretty big bird. Apparently they did not put bird screen on our exterior vents when they built our house. So the bird thought it found a nice warm place to nest until it fell into the deep, dark, and narrow pit that is our vent. It was involuntarily taking up residence in the wall behind our microwave. They couldn't get to it from the outside and the hole into the vent behind the microwave was way to small to get at it as well. They ended up having to cut a hole through our wall and vent duct to remove him. But after a couple hours of work he came out shaken up but alive. We then had a bird screen put in over the exterior exhaust & they will be back this week to further bird proof our other exterior vents.

What made this all the more "exciting" is that my mother is terrified of birds. She refused to go in the kitchen for the day and half it was stuck in there. She almost had a heartattack when a dish in the microwave popped!

Just thought I would share our little adventure. Word of advice - check to make sure your house has the simple mesh bird screens on your exterior vents, it is worth the trouble!