Our cat has taken to heart our request not to kill chipmunks, instead he brings them in alive and turns them loose in our bedroom.  Friday night my wife, who is not easily upset by critters, woke me up at 1AM to inform me that there was a chipmunk under her pillow.  I'm thinking "right" but dutifully got up and looked along the backside of her pillow.  Yes there was a chipmunk neatly snuggled under the back edge.  As I lifted the pillow, he startled, jumped on the floor and hid under the baseboard heater along the wall.

After 10 minutes of discussion about what to do, I got a cardboard box, laid it on the floor, blocked off both side exits along the heater and scooted him into the box using a yardstick.  As I released him ouside, I sternly told him to wise up and stay away from the cat.

As for the birds that so far have stayed outside:

1) we now have juvenile catbirds visiting the yard, 2) the yellow-bellied sapsucker chicks left the nest before I got photos of them sticking their heads out - darn, 3) the second clutch of phoebe eggs have hatched in the nest in our garage, 4) a kingbird visited our horse paddock area for the first time, 5) 2 juvenile cedar waxwings were perched in the birch tree in our backyard in the morning, then the waxwing family of 4 was checking out the berries in our honeysuckle bushes in late afternoon.