For anyone like me who’s never heard of Chimney Swifts before… the birds choose to be in there and can get out. It’s not just someone stuffing birds into a chimney for a photo op.
Those birds choose to be in there and can get out, the one that fell down the chimney into my basement a few months ago needed help to get out.
Chimney swifts are neat birds. They can’t perch on flat surfaces!
My buddy lives in a coop here in town, and he was given the job of investigating the odd smell from the chimney. They live in an old school building. He opens up the hatch to find a pile of (mostly) headless pigeons. They all thought they had a phyco serial killer in their midst. It turns out the peregrine falcons were catching the pigeons, eating only the heads, and dropping the bodies down the chimney.
this is some “this is my hole, it was made for me” shit