I suspect there is nothing I can do about this but I thought I would ask anyway.
By a method too complicated to explain, a blackbird managed to get into our boiler cupboard through an air vent and has now trapped itself in one of our cavity walls. Aside from knocking the wall down, there is no way I can get to it. It is still alive and squawking and flapping. I can hear it. But it is not bright enough to find its way through the air vent and back out again.
I hate to hear it in distress and I suspect it will just get weaker and die - no food or water. But is there any way I can coax it out. I have tried banging on the wall but I think that has just frightened it....
I'd give the RSPCA a call and see what they say.
Myarka.
celtia did u sort it out in the end?
Well - I'm not sure I did. I listened out all that afternoon to see if I could pinpoint where it was. I was in the kitchen pretty much all the time (where I had been able to hear it) but nothing. I hope it managed to find its way out (after all it found its way in), but part of me thinks it might have just given up and died. I'd like to think the happier thing happened.
Well you could give it some bread soaked in water and the occasional seeds maybe it will smarten up and get out.
Another thing is so that you put a piece of fabric that goes all the way to the black bird, make sure that the fabric is clingy so that bird can push it’s way out with her feed like a ladder.
Poor thing, I hope it freed itself out.
The thing is the place where I could hear it was nowhere near the gap that it got itself in, so I couldn't have reached it. It managed to get quite a long way in which is why I am a bit gloomy about the possibility of it having got out. If it didn't I am afraid there is no way it can have survived this long. I feel quite sad about it, but without dismantling my house I don't think I will ever know now.