Today's Bird World adventure — the flue of our woodburner wears a 'sock' to keep birds out, so it was very surprising to see this sparrow head sticking out into the lounge in the gap between the flue itself and the plate on the ceiling.

Wire mesh covers the top of the flue.
Stuck sparrow.

I extracted it enough so it darted off … straight into a window. After 5 minutes resting on the grass it recovered and flew off. Whew! 🐦