#mute birds

[riofann]

Bird problems

You guys there’s a bird that cascaded down my chimney and out the fireplace this past Saturday(I’m assuming for the first time cuz it was the first time for me to see this) . It flew into a room and I opened the front door started cleaning cuz I needed to anyway hoping it’s gonna follow the wind. So I go into the room it flew into bang around don’t see it. So I closed the front door thinking it’s gone I walk into the next room guess who’s by my foot?! So I jump around cuz it’s flapping it’s wings I can’t even get the door open properly because now it’s chasing me around the house! Eventually I open the door and just leave that area and continue to clean. So as the sun was beginning to set I went banging around didn’t hear anything, so I thought okay it’s gone. Sunday comes I run to Lowes to get an animal mesh something so this doesn’t happen again! Come back fumble with the mesh and command strips all is good, it’s tight enough it shouldn’t get through.

So Sunday passes nothing,  Monday nothing,  this Tuesday, yesterday guess who comes flapping around the fucking corner.

And it’s coming from a room I visited earlier in the day! I look at the wire mesh I’m seeing small feathers so I’m like okay did you get through?! Or were you in hiding?! I had left the house briefly for an appt. So I decide this time I’m going to open the back door and the front let it choose its exit. Everything is open concept can’t trap it in a room. I text my friends they suggest when it’s flying towards you run out the door. I tried that, little shit hit a U-turn and returns to the same fucking room it flew into initially. So I’m like okay let me clean up! I can’t focus on work I abandoned my work laptop all together (they would have to get in touch with me via postal mail at this point, because the laptop was in the one of the rooms it was ping ponging through) 

The thing about this bird it doesn’t CHIRP/ MAKE A SOUND! Just flaps its wings! So I can’t locate it if I wanted to trap it, because all I hear are fucking wings, flapping through the air!! Scary ass sound! Had it chirped or tweeted I probably wouldn’t be scared shitless, but it DOESN’T. So I hear it flapping around I runaway I can’t deal. Air is flowing through the house from both doors so eventually it leaves. I don’t know when all I know it wasn’t in the house when I had someone come and look early evening around 5/6PM.

Now picture this I’m banging on everything looking like a crazy bitch, broom in hand I’m banging on top of kitchen cabinets, fridge, I’m getting under the couches, on top of the china cabinet all of that! Because fucker you ain’t staying in this house terrorizing me!!! The guy that came to check it out said hey let’s put boxes in front of the fireplace until you get a screen for the top of the chimney. Perfect I fill in some spaces with Styrofoam from the box my work laptop came in. I go banging around one last time before I retreat to my room. Silence, nothing, my body is starting to calm down. 

I’m traumatized at this point because the thing chased me around the house 2x!!! So this morning I’m still shaken! I have to get some stuff from the living room but I stay in my room till afternoon! I do the same thing I did the night prior grabbed the broom and went banging around just in case.

 As soon as late afternoon hits TODAY! The HORROR sounds of WINGS FLAPPING coming down the CHIMNEY!

So I hop up off the couch, abandon work again, and grab the first thing I can and start banging on the box!  I’m screaming, I’m making noise. Not today not tomorrow I can’t do this with you birdie! I get some more Styrofoam reinforce the spaces between the box and the rock fireplace (it’s not a flat surface) so I’m banging around trying to scare it thinking okay you can’t get in anywhere so you should just fly on up this chimney and GTFO!

The little shit hasn’t left!

I have declared psychological warfare! I turned on YouTube and I am playing 48 hours of scary bird sounds! The next is a weird sound that irritates birds. 

In between all this I’m texting my mother what does she suggest?! Feed the bird! Give it some water! She loves birds! I’m like you aren’t getting chased around this house lady! I have calls to lead and attend how do you want me to do that with a bird that doesn’t chirp but it’s wings sound supersonic flying around the house?!

And yes I have looked for a nest I’ve swept beneath and on top of all surfaces there’s nothing that I found. 

Anyway thanks for coming to my Ted Talk. My theory is that it’s a baby bird but still like no adult bird came looking for it. I don’t hate birds I actually like them, from a distance! Emphasis on a distance. But this bird it’s just eerie it when it gets in it refuses to leave one particular room/space. I can’t coax it out so the best thing I can think of is to make it inhabitable in the fireplace and inaccessible to my home. 

Do any of you bird lovers/watchers know what type of bird it could be? Or why it doesn’t chirp? Its a black bird with some white feathers, it’s not big like crows/ravens, just a small little black bird. I’m located in the south east of USA. 

Edit: A butterfly flew towards me and I about came out my skin. Soooooo I’m gonna need some time to recover mentally lol this damn bird. 

[michaelnordeman]

Mute swan/knölsvan. Värmland, Sweden (February 27, 2021).

[unrestrained-balderdash-art-blog]

Made this for ASAW, didn't post it because I made better things but might as well post it now

[introvertedswimmer]

Mute Swan

[longingforrotkehlchen]

Remember to stay hydrated because, damn, it is freaking hot. Like disgustingly hot.

Höckerschwan 🐥 (mute swan) im Unteren Schlossgarten, Stuttgart-Ost.

[unkn0wnvariable]

Feeding Swan

A mute swan foraging for food amongst duckweed, on the water at Summer Leys nature reserve.

[birdblues]

Mute Swan

[stickynotebirds]

249. Mute Swan

[manynarrators]

Some S2 Shadow and Bone Troubled Birds! As you can see those first two Aleksander ones sort of go together!

[rolitae]

Doodling dragonswans or swangons? drawons? What would you call them?

[snototter]

A mute swan (Cygnus olor) idles on the river in Gothenberg, Sweden

by Hanna Knutsson

[shinonart]

I got myself a set of QOR watercolours and did a little test painting using them and I’m in love. It’s like seeing colour for the first time. The way these paints just flow is incredible. It’s such a joy to use them that going back to my usual colours feels impossible now haha! I cursed myself

Find me and my art elsewhere!    

[michaelnordeman]

Mute swan/knölsvan. Stockholm, Sweden (June 21, 2013).

[unrestrained-balderdash-art-blog]

Was out walking by a canal last weekend, there was someone walking by with 4 dogs (only one was on a lead) and this swan hissed at them, so it's my hero and I had to take some photos to draw it

[antiqueanimals]

How to Draw Birds. Written and illustrated by Raymond Sheppard. 1940.

[longingforrotkehlchen]

My life got spared by this swan. It could have been ended right on the spot, but I found mercy, an attribute to God himself, and I feel now in peace with myself. This swan checked me out, checked that I didn't have foodstuffs, that I wasn't foodstuff (at least not that day), and left. You will not believe it, but I got spared, in spite of offering nothing but my annoying presence. Nature is wonderful.

Höckerschwan (mute swan) am Eckensee im Oberen Schlossgarten, Stuttgart-Mitte.