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Does this mean we are doomed…?

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Undertherainbow00 · 24/08/2024 23:38

Came home to find a dead bird on my doorstep… Literally can’t fathom how it would end up there. Live in the countryside but how did it get there???
Of course the ring doorbell isn’t charged, so can’t check if it was put there. I’m SO freaked out right now after googling ‘dead bird on doorstep’. It wasn’t a little bird either - some sort of crow looking thing. I was screaming and my partner removed it, so I didn’t get a good look. Anyone else out there ever experienced anything similar?

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TitsInAbsentia · 27/08/2024 10:00

I despise the fact the app does not have the facility to thank posters (and I darent quote them all) but this is already gold for me 🤣

To add a few weeks ago I was greeted by a beautiful, but very dead, thrush on my doorstep. I cursed the local cats (who also deposit various amounts of shit everywhere that I am working through methods of deterrent for...but that's another story...) until I turned around and saw the spray of blackberry hued bird shit all down the door and window...it had obviously unloaded it's bowels on contact with the window...still, am assuming it was fairly instant.

Nothing of considerable doom has happened thus far...well for me anyway, the bird in the poop bag in the black bin would say different could it speak from beyond the grave....

Cherrysoup · 27/08/2024 09:55

sweeneytoddsrazor · 25/08/2024 10:08

We live in a town and get our fair share of dead birds.
Foxes having sex the noise is unreal
But possibly the most traumatic a bird of prey swooping down and catching my friends rabbit from her garden.
Not really sure where he came from presumably the local nature reserve.

Possibly just lives locally? We have multiple families of red tailed kites, no nature reserve.

Cherrysoup · 27/08/2024 09:53

Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 25/08/2024 09:39

@Snowwhitedove

’Dead pigeons don’t count count, it’s a black crow / raven thing. I understand, OP, very ominous, we found a dead black cockerel on our front path once, quite satanic! (It was one of our next door neighbours mind you).’

This is one of those cases where the possessive apostrophe is really helpful 🧟‍♀️

🤣

Cherrysoup · 27/08/2024 09:50

You screamed at a dead bird? And you live rurally? What the actual?

Cel119 · 27/08/2024 09:41

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Nainjo · 27/08/2024 09:01

Birds don't always choose where to die, but your doorstep may have felt like a safe place for the poor bird who felt unwell and knew it's time had come.

BrigadierEtienneGerard · 27/08/2024 08:55

Cat. End of.

Donnydave75 · 27/08/2024 08:42

Yes came home to a dead wood pigeon on my drive. I guessed it flew into the overhead telephone cables? But on checking on my security camera the daft thing flew into the fence and broke its neck, nothing sinister with dead birds usually accidents or nature.

pd339 · 27/08/2024 08:17

Sounds like you are indeed doomed; not because of the bird but your reaction to it!

Whostolemymojo · 27/08/2024 08:06

Gorgonemilezola · 24/08/2024 23:56

Birds do die. They don't live for ever. And they have to die somewhere. It might as well be your doorstep. Give it a lovely shoebox funeral.

😂😂😂😂😂

AmIEnough · 27/08/2024 07:26

Fox?

OrkneyGirl · 27/08/2024 00:49

I think it's been placed deliberately It's the crow description that got me. Once came across weird place in middle of woods with crows hung up on tress. Crows don't die on doormat. Too clever. It's been placed.

areallmotherslikethis · 27/08/2024 00:20

tolerable · 26/08/2024 23:06

Oh dear,yes... absolutely most very definitely a foretelling of imminent doom...curse can ONLY be broken by long hard look in mirror whilst saying aloud "amma fannie"

amma fannie 😂😂😂

Thevelvelletes · 26/08/2024 23:57

It's an omen..Get out.

SuperBlondie28 · 26/08/2024 23:50

As a child, I found a dead bird under my bed.. At least I know my own cat put it there, so a bird on the doorstep is nothing!!!

Wavescrashingonthebeach · 26/08/2024 23:19

Some countryside advice for you- don't go for a pleasant country walk when myxomatosis is going round. More dead rabbits than Watership Down!!!

tolerable · 26/08/2024 23:06

Oh dear,yes... absolutely most very definitely a foretelling of imminent doom...curse can ONLY be broken by long hard look in mirror whilst saying aloud "amma fannie"

MissPeachyKeen · 26/08/2024 22:32

Shit. I think they got her.

GabriellaFaith · 26/08/2024 22:21

A hawks dropped it, a cats left it, a fox spooked, it flew into your door, a kids winding you up....

Delphiniumandlupins · 26/08/2024 20:31

You're not as doomed as the poor bird.

Oneearringlost · 26/08/2024 20:20

@Isinglass20
It was Private Fraser x

Grammarnut · 26/08/2024 20:17

Birds die. Sometimes they do it on doorsteps. Don't be so daft.

housethatbuiltme · 26/08/2024 20:04

Probably flew into your door and broke its neck... unfortunate but not rare, especially if it was panicking, separated from the other birds while being chased by a bird of prey.

AntigoneFunn · 26/08/2024 20:04

Well if I wanted to Hex you and bring disease and death to your door, this might be part of my repertoire as a Witch. However, I could just as easily Hex you and you not know the first thing about it. So swings and roundabouts innit?

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