Does this mean we are doomed…?

Get a grip!

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😂😂 I'd be doing that almost every day with the delightful gifts my ginger devil cat leaves on my doorstep! 😂😂

I don't see why a chicken can't be counted as a neighbour. They have more personality than some humans.

Last spring I had the pleasure of seeing a young magpie family teaching the little ones to sit on the fence.

One went upside down and fell off, a sibling then started a fight and one of the adults, well I don't speak Magpie so I didn't get the words but it was a stern telling off.

Make an appointment to see yr GP for help with yr irrational anxiety.

My cat had a bird- think it was a starling:(- and all the local magpies joined in the starlings in dive bombing the cat. I really respected them for that.

Get another battery for the doorbell and recharge so you always have one to hand.

Actually now I think about it there were three crows or maybe ravens, walking down the street yesterday.

The magpies were not happy.

It is a gift. You are the chosen one.

It is fascinating, we've witnessed it with jackdaws and crows. I've always been drawn to corvid birds (cos I'm kinda weird/goth/dark) but seeing a jackdaw wake in the street in front of our house gave me a new found respect for their incredible intelligence. They seem to have so much compassion - you realise that even the reviled magpies are wonderfully caring parents if you are lucky enough to observe them as a family group.

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.

The words "some sort of crow looking thing" tell me that either this a wind-up post or the now vanished OP is a born townie. Screaming every time you come across a dead bird isn't really the done thing for rural dwellers.

That's interesting. That's very much what it looked like. I can't fully remember it all as it was quite a number of years ago, but I remember all the other birds just being there.

OMG an outbreak of CORVID 24.

Let's rename it C in case craws claim racism.

Exactly.
Probably brought by a friendly cat.
OP's problems onto my head.

Corvid birds have funerals/wakes for their fallen comrades.

Screaming?? I don't think the countryside suits you...

I've had a dead young blackbird on my doorstep - almost certainly the doings of one of the bloody cats in our neighbourhood. (We have nice unbloody cats too).

But given that we get leaves accumulating in our porch in certain winds - and it was very windy at times yesterday- I wouldn't be at all surprised to find a bird that had died of some natural/accidental cause fetch up there.

We've had birds fly into the windows at the rear and so die near the back door, we've put bird decals on them now to help them see the glass.

@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 🧟‍♀️

My post had a few responses - to the other customer service folk, bless you - I had a lot of fun stories, good stories but mostly cross or odd people- I changed jobs when I stopped feeling the 'love' or actually even minimal interest in their 'issues' 🤦🏻‍♀️ - not the easiest to be patient and helpful.
The lady expected the council to move it as they clear rubbish and environmental stuff in general I think - a lot of people (particularly older ones) do anyway think the council is the place to go for help though - perhaps it was once up on a long distant time ago.
That this superstition is very old is true but there are many villages that are still very old fashioned in thought and ways and maintain such beliefs - whilst many old villages have expanded and modernised there are still plenty that remain quite adrift in a way, middle of nowhere, small groups of houses with no other facilities, same families, fixed ways - and she was getting on a bit too. I lived in a village/town that was no way adrift or small but still surprisingly as if I'd stepped back at least 50 years from my small city and not in a good way (to me) - smaller villages I imagine are even more of a time warp.
OP - hope you remain safe!

We once found two dead crows in our garden. What was so strange about it was that there was a large number of other crows, flying around / sat in the trees etc. As soon as DH removed them, the others flew off. Not sure why two died together though.

You would be absolutely amazed at the amount of things other people think are someone else's job!!!

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).