Renting - Pigeon stuck in chimney!

no_summer_here

jamie11 wrote: »

Would you be so concerned if it was a rat that died there? Pigeons are as much vermin as they are.

You would like it where I live, I have had a guy standing in my garden uninvited, blowing the squirrels out of our tree with a shotgun!

Save the pigeon, phone RSPB

Debt_Free_Chick

I had a crow stuck up (down?) the chimney a few weeks ago. Nothing much you can do, other than to get a sweep out and try to push it up and out. Although there's just as much chance that it'll fall down and into the living room.

Not an option if there's no access to the chimney though.

Not sure that the RSPCA would be able to do much, if the chimney's blocked from below.

It might seem cruel, but if it can't be rescued, then there's not a lot you can do. That's life, I'm afraid - you can only do what you can do.

ps - silence in my chimney now, I'm afraid

pinkteapot

Chimney sweep won't come out unless there's access to the open hole - they won't disconnect a gas or electric fire.

If it was a gas fire you'd have to get a GasSafe registered person round to disconnect the fire, pull it out, the reconnect it after the bird is free.

Not sure on the legalities with an electric fire - not sure if you have to use a Part P electrician or whether you can DIY it (if confident).

We had a bird fall down our chimney a couple of years ago. Had to get a gas engineer to take the fire out and put it back afterwards. Thankfully the bird flew straight out and out of the open window, without pooping once in our lounge! Gas guy only charged us £30 - not bad considering our regular guy wasn't about so I had to get an emergency call-out person from the Yellow Pages.

Afterwards we had a bird guard fitted to the top of the chimney so it can't happen again.

G_M

Debt_Free_Chick wrote: »

I had a crow stuck up (down?) the chimney a few weeks ago. Nothing much you can do, other than to get a sweep out and try to push it up and out. Although there's just as much chance that it'll fall down and into the living room.

Not an option if there's no access to the chimney though.

Not sure that the RSPCA would be able to do much, if the chimney's blocked from below.

Quite. OP said

It's got a fitted electric fire so no access up the chimney.

so to those accusing respondants as uncaring, just how would RSPCA or fire brigade get it out? Options perhaps:

* rip out fire, open up fireplace, get sweep round and push up
* lower a loop of rope/wire down fro above, hook round pigeon's head, and pull up

I don't think so!

wannahouse

jamie11 wrote: »

Would you be so concerned if it was a rat that died there? Pigeons are as much vermin as they are.

i'd be concerned if it was any living thing quite frankly ( and this is coming from someone who had a squirrel stuck in the ventilation flue above the stove extractor fan! - and yes, we went to the effort go remove the appliance etc,and free the grateful animal.)

Okydoky25

Sadly I got no response from my LL or LA no surprise and I've not heard it the last couple of days.

dodger1

How do you know the bird is stuck, could it be a nest?

Okydoky25

I don't tbh

Stanley_St

My living room had a plague of flies a few years back. There were thousands of them for days, and I couldnt work out where they were coming from. A year later, the gas fire was replaced, and the installer called me to see the body of a dead pigeon behind the fire he removed.

Another reason to get the bird out if you can.

wannahouse

dodger1 wrote: »

How do you know the bird is stuck, could it be a nest?

we have these rooks that were nesting in our chimney...
after a squirrel came down and ran about breaking things, the landlord got proper cows put on the chimney... (different house, different squirrel than the one in the ventilation flue above the stove, but we seem to attract this sort of trouble!)
a week later, a rook came falling down the chimney and flew about the other loungeroom in our house! *&^%&^$!!!!

the men that placed the cowls made up some weak excuse that the birds had pecked through the wire, and that is how 1 week later, we still ended up with an animal running riot!
anyway, shennanigans aside, we still get sticks dropped down the chimney constantly, even though they have apparently patched the wire, and we hear this flapping drumming sound in there alot...
have no idea whats going on, but its not stuck in the chimney, and i doubt there is a nest in there, as the cowl was apparently fixed...

but we do hear that flapping ,squawking carry on alot...maybe they are mating on top of the cowl?