For the birds...

So, this is random. Birds taking up residence in your dryer vent? Yup. This is a real-life thing. We had birds nesting in the vent's opening. But they weren't content with just living it up with warm, scented air blowing over them once in a while. They wanted more. They went a vent too far.

One day the Sweetie™ heard scratching behind the wall in the laundry room. Rodents? No, no, thank goodness. Birds. They had crawled further in, had fallen down the vent, then tried scratching their way to freedom. So, what were we to do? Unhook the dryer and fish them out, of course. I found not one or two, but FIVE birds. One mama and four ugly kid birds. Yuck.

Oh, the joys of home ownership! I eventually cleaned out the vent, pulling about three feet of grass, twigs, feathers and poop out of the vent. Guh-ROHSS!

One of the little guys. You're a menace, bird! A menace!

Just relax, bird, and no one gets hurt. Except for you because you can't fly.