How could a blackbird end up in my basement - dead.

[lizziegrace]

I can handle mice and other creatures. This *is* a farm. But a bird???

Any theories?

[Sanity Claws]

1. A cat brought it in?

Hi, there.

[lizziegrace]

3. Hey!

The cats are strictly indoor beasts. I'm a little nervous about an opening being so large a bird can get in... That means the blue racer snake I encountered last spring could get in too. :scared:

[sasquatch]

20. What type of snake is a Blue Racer?

:shrug:

[sasquatch]

23. Nevermind, I did a google search

You big chicken, blue racers aren't poisinous.
:P

[lizziegrace]

27. They'll come after you

the bite isn't poisonous, but it's nasty since it's a shredding kind of bite.

This one was about 2 1/2 feet long and maybe 2 inches high at the back. It was as silver as the chrome on a car. And he moved so fast...

;)

I'm not chicken, just cautious... :P

[texas1928]

2. Nevermore.

[lizziegrace]

4. That was the first phrase that went through my head...

scary, huh?

[texas1928]

7. Did it repeat itself though?

Nevermore.

[Burma Jones]

5. Waited too long for his moment to arise.........

[lizziegrace]

9. love the Beatles!!

:)

[TZ]

6. Through the chimney (assuming you have one)?

We got birds in our house growing up when we were young from there.
We also had a crow get in once..never figured out how that got in w/out anybody noticing...:shrug:

[lizziegrace]

11. Chimney's capped as it is cracked and cannot be used

I'd rather have a dead bird than the live bat that I found flying around my house at 4am when Lelapin was a little girl. :scared:

[Connonym]

8. are you having some unresolved issues with a loan shark or other underworld types?>

if you find something dead in your bed it might be time to go to the feds and talk about witness protection. I'm just sayin'

[lizziegrace]

13. I tried to call the county

they laughed at me. ;-)

[Connonym]

14. just about the only timnes I've regretted being divorced have been related to dead animals

I learned to kind of close my eyes and deal with the mouse trap. I still scream when I squish a spider or a centipede. The only thing I had to call for outside assistance was when the dogs caught and mangled a couple baby bunnies :( Ended up having to deal with that myself. This is where shovels, rakes, wrapping your hands in several layers of plastic bags and/or disposable gloves comes in handy. :shudder: Just because I'm a feminist doesn't mean I'm not squeamish!

[lizziegrace]

15. Amen!

I can take care of myself, but when it comes to critters, I can't do it. I can scoop it up with a shovel but I have to carry that shovel up the stairs, down the hall and through my kitchen. Not a good path. I've called my neighbor to see if her son will come over. I paid him yesterday to plow for me...

Hope they call back.

[DS1]

10. Every time Eliot Spitzer screws a hooker, God kills a blackbird

[lizziegrace]

12. ...

:rofl:

[Vanje]

16. Bwaaah! haaww! nt

[LadyoftheRabbits]

17. Poor thing...

But yeah, I don't want to handle it, either. :P

[hisownpetard]

18. Movie to rent for tonight: Hitchcock's "The Birds"

:popcorn:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

19. *snort*

I've never seen that... I don't think it'd bother me nearly as much as my roommate. She's terrified of birds. :P

[hisownpetard]

21. Especially dead ones, in the basement.

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww...

[hisownpetard]

22. Look on the bright side: if you find 23 more, you can bake a pie!

[LadyoftheRabbits]

25. True...

And in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, it was popular and considered high entertainment for birds to be put into the pie only to fly out when it was cut. :P

[lizziegrace]

28. Would you two stop it!!

:rofl:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

29. If I can give a history lesson...

Ain't nothing gonna stop me. :P

[lizziegrace]

30. ...

:P

[DarkTirade]

24. How could it live down there?

All it needed was to get down there. Then it was stuck and it couldn't find food.

So there's really only one mystery. How did it get there in the first place? Everything else is a result of that.

[lizziegrace]

31. Absolutely right

how it got there is the mystery.

[Perry Logan]

26. Murdered someplace else. Body moved in attempt to make it look like suicide.

[lizziegrace]

32. Sounds like a Perry Mason case...

;)