This is my 365 entry from the first week of June last year:
"The screeching that has been emanating from suspiciously far down the chimney in the dining room for the past few days finally ended in this year's 'baby jackdaws falling down the chimney' ritual. This year there were two of them. As usual they were pretty much ready to fly by the looks of them, so as in other years we put them on top of the garage, but not before taking a couple of photos, naturally. I wasn't able to watch what happened, but in other years their parents have come straight down and fed them and they have flown off from there. This is one of the babies just before I let it go. It is looking pretty meek here, but don't be fooled, it was actually plotting how it could peck me and had already had a good few goes at it. That's gratitude for you."
Well the same thing has happened this year, although so far we have only had one unwanted visitor. We have had the screeching for about five days and then the bird ended up in the fireplace this afternoon. As you can see it brought no end of sticks and other debris down with it. We can't light a fire in that fireplace because the chimney is full of sticks that the damn jackdaws have dropped down it so I fill it with candles instead.
How about a wire cap over the chimney if possible, we have had 3 pigeons down ours until wired. However it has given you a great photo pop. He doesn't look impressed in the other one.
It is what we are need to do Jen, but due to the shape and location of the house - the ground falls away very suddenly at the front and it is impossible from the back it is going to be a nightmare to do. We will have to get scaffolding at some point - it's going to cost a fortune. It will need to be done in the winter when the nest isn't in use and then of course I am not being bothered by them so somehow it just doesn't seem so important so I keep putting it off. One day..... @jennywren
Cute little guy, wouldn't want to be bit by him though. In the summer when our chimney isn't used we get bats that fly down the chimney and try to make homes. Good luck to the two of them.
