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Message: <blockquote data-quote="captaincarot" data-source="post: 2121294" data-attributes="member: 80825">about 30 years ago, i heard a scrabbling noise coming from inside the closed up fireplace after about 15 minutes. i told my father about it.about an hour later he'd managed to reopen the fireplace and out popped a starling with a large cloud of lovely black soot. we then relesed it into the back garden where it promptly began to have a bath. we went back into the front room to begin the clean up and 5 minutes later out popped a second starling complete with even more soot.so i have heard of birds falling down chimneys but never a duck.p.s. starlings make brilliant chimney sweeps</blockquote>