Rescuing a bat in a chimney: this is Icarus

When a bat isn't a bat, but is still a creature stuck in a chimney; the rescue procedure is the same.
When I got a call for a bat in a chimney behind a fireplace, I knew it wasn't going to be a bat, but if there's a report of a bat in a chimney, a bat rescuer has to attend. It's rarely a bat, usually a bird or a possum. I always find these entertaining, like a lucky dip. What will be behind the fireplace?

Icarus (named by the MOPs) turned out to be a rainbow lorikeet, which I identified from the squawking even prior to seeing his little face peering out. I adore parrots, but rainbow lorikeets are psychopaths with bolt cutters and can inflict a nasty bite when they're unhappy with proceedings; I've never rescued a happy lorikeet.

I only occasionally do chimney rescues behind an iron fireplace front, so I had forgotten how the whole thing came apart; I had to try to get my arm inside to grab the poor little guy without getting savaged by the aforesaid potential psychopath...
I pulled apart the things which rattled and came apart but I couldn't manage to open the hinged flap far enough to give me any more manouevering room.
In the back of my brain I was convinced I had missed something, but it only dawned on me a few minutes later that that hinged flap actually lifted out of slots; duhhh!
This significantly improved my space and access, but my arm wasn't long enough to get the bird who predictably parked himself just out of my reach.
I don't know how I finally got him (but I have a nice bruise in my armpit from the edge of the fireplace), then he squirmed out of my tenuous grasp and of course he flew around the bedroom, smacking into the window and the mirror...
All in all, not a bad outcome (could've been better).
I contacted the bird people, and the advice was if he was flying, to let him go; so I did and you get to see him fly off.

YAY, I love happy outcomes, bird, bat or whatever...

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