Birds

Hello All

I just thought I'd share with you the main event of my day.  Most will think it's comical however I've found it to be a very traumatic experience.

I had a nice day today nothing out of the ordinary just a nice day. I figured I'd get relaxed and showered prior to sitting down in front of the tv and eating my salad. However that was not what it was going to be.

After showering I decided to go ahead and close all the curtains for the night.  So here I am singing along as I walk into the livingroom. I don't know what made me look over but I did and there perched upon my speaker was a bird.   I do not like birds.  In fact I do not like most creatures other then cats and maybe even dogs (though I've been known to be afraid of them as well).   Basically I don't know whether my screaming freaked the bird out or whether we saw eachother at the same time but he started flying all over my living room.  I screamed and ran and managed to shut the door to the living room. I don't know why I did this but dressed in my a pajamas I ran outside.  Luckily I had my cell phone.  So there standing out in my front garden in my pajamas with a cell phone in my hand I decide to my ring my husband.  Now again I'm not quite sure why I did this either as his ship is in Scotland and obviously he cannot get a bird out of our living room from Scotland.  When he was not able to stop laughing I hung up on him and decided that I needed to call my neighbors.  To make a long story short they came over and started laughing too but at least they got the bird out.

So out the door along with the bird went my nice quiet evening and of course as luck would have it I cleaned my living room today and mopped the floors etc.  And now I have bird s**t all over my living room.  

All I have to say is Thank Goodness I was not sat on the couch when this visitor decided to fly down our chimney. Otherwise I think I would have had a major heart attack.

I just thought I'd share....

Very amusing but I can see how it'd scare the living bejesus out of you!

Reminds me of a time when I was young and I had just gotten out the shower when I heard a great commotion from downstairs and my mom yelling something to me. I of course couldn't hear so I go down the hall to the top of the stairs only to have a bat flying right at me.   [smiley=stunned.gif] I stood frozen as it swooshed over my towelled head.

I was terrified at first but now think it was way cool.  

Hope you at least had most of your salad!  

I hope it's OK for me to be laughing hysterically, since I am one of the "I Hate Birds" sisterhood and would have done the same thing.  You poor thing!  I probably would have wet my pants in addition to all the other stuff!

When I was little I was attacked by birds in Memphis.  See, especially when I was little (and I mean tiny as well as only 3 years old) I had the palest, silvery blonde hair.  Apparently these black birds decided I was too little to be a threat, and my hair looked nice and soft, so every time I stepped out of our hotel room they dive-bombed me and stole my hair.

Then when I was about 8 I was chased by ducks, quacking and waddling their malevolent waddle.

So I would have freaked out too, absolutely.  How awful for you!!!

But that's a story to dine out on for years.

Big hugs, sweetie.  

Evil, nasty birds...

Thanks Lynne & SAF,

I'm sure I would find it very funny if  it didn't happen to me... and I really kind of do see the humor in it all but I was and am still a bit freaked out by it all! I know in a few years time it will be one of those memories that I will definitely laugh at!

I don't know how a tiny bird could do that to a person but then again I had the same reaction last year when I was mowing the lawn and a slow worm ran across my foot (I swear it was a snake but husband continually argues with me that it wasn't).  I think I must be building quite a reputation for myself along the street here.  The other neighbor ran out of her house when that happened thinking I had been electrocuted or something.

As I said I'm not very fond of creatures.. My attitude is they have their place and I have mine and as long as they stay out of mine I will promise to stay out of their's. So far they've not held up their end of the bargain. As you can probably tell I moved here from a city.

January 17 or there abouts next year is when my husband gets to come home!!!  And I really cannot wait because then he can deal with all these yucky things!!!

 I know how you feel hon.A few weeks back we had a sparrow that got trapped in our attic.G went up there with a flashlight, to see if he could get it out.It was scared and hiding,but he made enough noise that it flew down out of the attic(G bumped his head in the dark poor thing   )

Now when I saw that bird flapping its wings in my hallway it scared the jeppers out of me and I ran and hid in the bathroom,till G was able to get it out back door.Now I knew that bird wouldnt hurt me,but I kept thinking it would fly into my hair!LOL.My poor doggie was a bit scared too,but we managed.

 I can only imagine how much that scared you!;to look over and see a bird perched in your living room! Hon I would have done the same pjs and all  

 

I would have freaked!  And I like animals.  I had an experience the other day that's not too far off.  I was visiting my mom and watching t.v. while she slept.  I went to turn off the tube and there was a little grey mouse next to it.  I'm not sure who ran quicker...me or the mouse.  And I woke up the entire apartment building with my scream!  Unexpected creatures will take it out on you.  I had a laugh while reading your post mainly because I can now finally laugh at my own experience.  Oy...I was such a girl...screaming at a mouse!

i gotta say i don't like things out of place.  the only bird i'll tollerate in my house is one in a cage that sings and talks.....i like those.

No flapping and sh*ting ones please!  

One of my best friends told me one day she'd had a dream the night before there were baby possums in her bedroom. We both laughed about it. The very next day she walked out to check her mail and when she walked back in she looked over to see a small possum walking across the back of her sofa and it freaked out when she did and it jumped and fell into an empty brass bucket sitting on the fireplace hearth. She picked up the bucket and ran outside as it hissed and carried on and then she let it go. I told her I would have just fainted right there the second I saw the thing on my sofa and there's NO way I could have picked up the bucket with a hissing possum in it.

It turned out there was a hole of some sort back under their kitchen cabinets and an entire family of possums had been getting in that way..mom and babies. So the dream she had was real..she'd probably half woke up during the night and seen them all scampering past her bed and then went back to sleep thinking it had been a dream. YUCK!