The public have been urged to put in fowl guards of their chimneys following the rescue of two Tawny Owls in Norfolk.
Chimney sweep Darrel Cucu went to a home in Corpusty after the house owners heard hooting from their chimney. He needed to take away a woodburner earlier than he might have a look, and noticed the owls’ staring again at him, because the Eastern Daily Press first reported.
Mr Cucu handle to free each owls they usually flew off by a window. He instructed BBC Radio Norfolk he was no stranger to being known as out to pigeons or Common Starlings caught in chimneys – however Tawny Owls had been a special matter altogether.
One of the Tawny Owls that obtained trapped (Darrel Cucu).
Owl predicament
Mr Cucu stated. “You could not simply seize them … so I needed to attempt to destabilise them to make them fall down the chimney to seize them by hand.”
He stated the birds, which had apparently been caught within the chimney for 2 days, appeared “fairly properly”.
The sweep managed to steer one owl down, and it flew on to a window sill – and he captured the opposite in his hand.
Chimney fowl guards
Asked how they could have ended up on this predicament, Mr Cucu stated: “They in all probability simply fell in. That’s a standard difficulty and it occurs typically to birds.”
He stated one of the best ways to keep away from an identical mishap was to “match a fowl wire on to your chimney”, which, he added, was particularly necessary if the home’s chimney was now not getting used and had been plastered over at floor stage.
