Wren Moved In

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I have a chicken-adjacent question. 😋

The wrens in my yard seem to have no fear. Last year, a mating couple came to the bird feeder on my front porch while I had the door propped open for taking out the trash, and the male (I assume) came onto the threshold to show me the big seed he had scored. 🙂

Now there is a wren who started eating the chickens' food when it was outside, and then when I started leaving the back porch doors open and keeping the food there because of the cold, it came into the porch on multiple occasions to eat the food and squat in the coop.

Then, when I had to keep a door open to the house for my dog, the wren started coming inside the house. 😆

Any ideas on how I could catch it and take it back outside, given that the weather has incentivised it to move in??
 

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Do you have a baseball cap and are you a tall person?
This happened way back in the day in my classroom. One of the tall basketball players got his cap and caught it to release outside.
 
Do you have a baseball cap and are you a tall person?
This happened way back in the day in my classroom. One of the tall basketball players got his cap and caught it to release outside.
That's very clever! Unfortunately, I am 5'2". I do have a pond cleaner net thingy, but I don't want to inadvertently injure it. I'm wondering if I could lure it outside with some treat that's more attractive than chicken crumbles?

(Full Disclosure: It's not JUST chicken crumbles; there are a lot of treats mixed in. 😬)
 
Best wishes getting it out safely.
Does it seem in distress or just happy to be there?
 

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