Fly little birdie! Fly!

So this morning, long before sunrise, I get up and let my little dog out as is our usual routine. After a few minutes I hear him barking a strange bark, you know how dogs have different barks for different situations...well for one it's coming from the front yard. Which means he has gotten out of the backyard somehow. My first thought was the deer knocked down the fence again. So I go out to retrieve my beloved little Woofus from the front yard before he runs out into traffic. I step outside and there is a beautiful gray cat with shining yellow eyes on my porch. Mind you it's still pitch dark out side and all I can see are his eyes and the light shining on the outline of his fluffy little coat. He lets out a few quiet meows and doesn't run or cower, which I find odd.

After getting Woof to safety I dig out my flashlight to see if the fence in down in the back and I can't see anything. As I shine the light around 3 things, which I thought were bats, come flying out of the corner of the house. What a start they gave me! They flew around frantically in the dark and then off they went, not before raising by fear barometer rather rapidly. I decided that I had better wait until daylight to take a closer look at the fence after all its much too early in the day to tango with bats.

As I opened the backdoor to go inside 3 birds flew over my head and into my house! Straight through the laundry room and into the kitchen. What the heck?! It's 6 in the morning, still dark out, my dog is barking it's fool head off and I'm thinking how in the world am I going to get not one but three birds, that are flailing in utter terror out of my house?

What a place to land LOL

So I thought I'd try my fly technique. After all if it works on flies maybe it will work on birds too.

So the layout of the land is...there is a laundry room off the kitchen with a glass paned door between the two and then there is another door which leads to the back porch which has a small roof over it and then out into the yard.

The idea is to wrangle the birds into the laundry room and then out. So I turn off all the lights except for the one on the porch and the one in the laundry room hoping they will go toward the lights like flies do. So I'm waving my arm and shewing like a mad woman trying to get them headed in the right direction. Low and behold they "get it" they go into the laundry room. Ok good! Now the outside door is open but they stay in the laundry room. What? Why don't they go out? I'm shewing and waving, oh I hope the neighbors are not up watching, and they fly in circles land on just about everything out of reach, even on top of the door that leads to freedom, but will not go out. Then a faint meeeeooow comes from the bushes. LOL oh my. They won't go out because the cat with the shining yellow eyes is waiting for them. 

I gave the birds a few minutes to catch their breath and then I got a little more aggressive with my voice and radical arm waving until they began to fly out. The only problem was they were flying right back in! They feared the cat much more than me. One out, two in, three out and all back in, round and round they went until finally, impressed with myself, all 3 were out, or so I thought.

I settled back into my morning routine. I hear Woofus scratching and rearranging his bedding before settling down and all is well. A few minutes later I hear the dog again trying to get comfortable, then again, then again and then again. What the heck was he up to? So I go in to check on him and it wasn't him at all but another little bird perched on the blade of my ceiling fan looking as frightened as can be. So I go through the motions again and finally send him on his way. Now...finally everything is calm and as it should be.

Now you know how to not only get flies out of your house but birds too! Thank goodness it was dark outside and not daylight. Have a swooping good day!