“Blackbird, I’ll ‘ave ‘e”
With apologies to “The Wurzels” for borrowing their song title ( B side to their Combineharvester hit from the late 70s). A young ish blackbird flew into the front hall today and caused a bit of fuss while we evicted it. It flew into the front windows a couple of times, then went into the Met Lounge, hit a few more windows, collapsed on the floor and eventually let me catch it by throwing a towel over it.
Once I’d got it I released him from well outside the front door and off he went. leaving Jill to do a little cleaning! We did think the newly covered chairs had escaped but unfortunatley not. Luckily Jill is a dab hand at doing odd cleaning jobs and you would never know.
I know now that the bird must have been concussed because later that afternoon he came back! This time he was much more wary of my bath towel and kept up high to avoid me before eventually running down the corridor to the restaurant, flying (cleanly) around there before going for another run around the tables. I threw the towel over him but he kept on running and just ran out from under the edge, in this case a quick learner. I got him at the second attempt, pinning down the edges of the towel before picking him up. This time I shut the front door behind me as I took him out and left it shut so hopefully he won’t be able to get back in!
