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Registered Member #96
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:37PM
Location: CI, Earth
Posts: 4061
Hi all.
Just spent the last ten minutes trying to extract a somewhat confused bird from my workshop.
Needless to say the little avian mischief maker didn't want to play ball. Tried to catch him but he wasn't having any of it so had to wait a bit for him to calm down.
I had to resort to trapping him in a corner at last, and used a spare postal tube to capture him, prior to releasing outside. He was NOT happy, evidently very disorientated so kept bouncing off windows and random stuff. Happy ending, he flew off seemingly unharmed.
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Joined: Sun Nov 14 2010, 05:05PM
Location: UK
Posts: 4245
I used to have a workshop in a boatyard (read 'marina'), one day a canary walked in. (I think it was a canary, it was yellow, with green bits.)
It was still there when I finished for the day, so I put it in a box and took it home, and fed it, etc.
Someone gave me a big cage, I looked after it for a bit, then I came home one day and my girlfriend at the time said it had escaped and flown out the window. I didn't believe her, I think she 'let it go'.
Birds like canaries generally get attacked by 'local' birds and killed, so I doubt it lasted long. I've no idea where it came from, whether it 'hitched a lift' on a yacht, or other boat, from 'near' the canary islands (I presume that's where they come from), or whether it escaped/was 'let free' locally.
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Years ago I used to work for Digital Equipment Corp (DEC) designing the h/w & microcode for custom graphics accelerators. This was at DEC in Reading - a huge building, more like an aircraft hanger, called "DEC Park". I worked for the CSS (Computer Special Systems) division - they did odd stuff for "special" customers...
Occasionally, pigeons would get inside by following people through the varoius doors and live up inside the roof (about 30 ft up), cr*pping on the poor unfortunate engineers below.
One merry day I was trying to debug some bit-slice system I'd designed and the pigeons were becoming increasingly annoying, when a couple of security guards walked by with rifles (.22 CO2 job with telescopic sights), sat down in chairs nearby, and started shooting them.
So, not just contending with keeping crap out of a lot of expensive highspeed electronics, we now had dead birds falling from the sky and the rest of them panicking, squawking, flapping around madly and completely venting their digestive tracts, along with bits of lead ricocheting off the pipework overhead, the girls were screaming and running about, stuff was falling down all over...
Gave up. Went to the canteen until the carnage ended.
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Joined: Wed Apr 29 2009, 12:22AM
Location: Los Altos, California
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Who hasn't had a wild bird in the house? They do seem to be yellower than most -- is it a blonde thing? In this case my wife left the door wide open & the bird found its own way out.
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Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:37PM
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This one was, I had to duck a few times.
Could have been worse, at least it wasn't a magpie. Those things are evil! Or even worse, a pigeon. That would have been messy, as larger birds tend to um, vent everywhere if scared at all. Not to mention a half kilo pigeon has quite a vicious bite if you corner it.
My dad has a permanent scar on his hand from a seagull that got caught in someone's fishing line, after he tried to free it.
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