Bird Brain

Myself and Ali just spent over an hour trying to free a sparrow. There is a window ledge in our kitchen - the only place to sit in the kitchen - that has a tiny gap between the glass and the ledge. The shape of our kitchen means that there is a corner in the middle, on one side of the corner there is a gap of maybe 2cm, and on the other side about 3cm. So not a lot of room. There is no fly screen here so sparrows often fly into our kitchen, sit on the cill and fly out, but i've never actually seen one fly around in the kitchen before.

So I had just made something to eat and sat down on the ledge to eat it. I could hear this rustling and occassional sqwark but couldn't work out where it was coming from. Eventually I looked down the crack and saw this little sparrow struggling to get out. There wasn't enough room for him to open his wings to fly so he was trying to jump. But the gap is about 20cm deep so he had no hope. I have absolutely no idea how he even got down there. Crazy bird.

I went and got Ali and then I banana tree branch. We wedged the banana branch down the gap so he could climb up it but he was too doughy to do it! I swear i've never met a stupidier bird in my life! Using a spatula on one side and the branch on the other, we'd manage to leveradge him up, but he kept jumping back down the gap! I swear he was suicidal! We got him up five times and he kept jumping down again! Eventually I was quick enough to grab him on the 6th attempt to get him out. We set him free and he flew away! But I swear that bird did nothing but hinder his rescue attempts! Oh well, at least he's ok now, no damage to his wings (i'm basing that on the fact that he flew away... hope i'm right).