Bird clues

While we were packing for our camping trip a few weeks ago, we left the front door open for a half and hour or so while we were packing the car.

When we got home from our trip, we found this:

Hmmm... a bit puzzling. It looks a lot like bird poo, doesn't it? So, I thought, that since the table is only a few feet away from the birdfeeder in our backyard that somehow the poo had mysteriously splattered it's way onto our dining table through the window screen while the window was open. Yeah, far fetched. Even for me:)

Then I found this. More unidentifiable white stuff on the bunk bed upstairs. Now I knew that there had unquestionably been a bird in the house. After pondering it for a while, I figured that it must have come in while we were out packing the car and flown out before we shut the door to leave.

That's what I thought.

Later I was doing a little spring cleaning. I was cleaning around upstairs, putting clothes away and picking up toys. I saw a little stuffed animal on the floor of the closet and bent down to pick it up. But, suddenly I realized that we didn't have any stuffed animals that small. Or that color. So I backed up, turned the light on...

And found this.

The poor, unfortunate culprit of the white stuff. In a closet with the door almost completely closed. How did he get in? How could he not get out? I think I'd die too if I couldn't get out of a dark closet for two days.