Ahhh...thanks guys!

I ended up just following the poor thing around (some sort of little finch...mega cute!!) so that it couldn't land peacefully anywhere and had to keep flying. Fortunately, the house isn't that big and most of the rooms had closed doors....it found its way out with some encouragement.

What's weird is the dog never barked at it once...which is odd, because she's easily excited and loves to alert me to things with her bark. She was psyched about the bird, but was very quiet as she bounced around the house after it. LOL I was only alerted to it because of some weird scuffling noises in my otherwise silent house followed quickly by the sound of Mira's galloping moose feet.