some idiot-child for a fly can't find its way back out the door in flew in by

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6. Birds are the same way - they get in my screened porch

Through the holes the squirrels gnawed in the screens. Then they can't find their way out.

If I'm energetic, I take my pool net, catch them and release them outside. If I'm not that ambitious, I open both outside doors to the porch and leave them alone for a while. Usually after an hour or so, the birds have found a door and left.

Sometimes leaving the doors open back fires - one time when I went out to close them the next morning, a Carolina wren had built a nest in a flower pot overnight and panicked when I walked onto the porch! I chased her out and moved the flowerpot onto the front porch that is covered but not screened. She raised three chicks in that nest, then moved on.