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KimberleyClark · 25/08/2024 09:27

NoBinturongsHereMate · 24/08/2024 23:54

We have peregrines round here. Every now and then they catch a bird at our bird feeder and eat it on the lawn or in the apple tree. Nearest I've got to screaming about it calling to DP to bring the camera. Then when they've finished I inspect the remains to identify the catch (usually a juvenile sparrow).

You may not be cut out for country life, OP.

I’ve seen a falcon eating its catch in our garden and we live in a city! And yes I ran for my camera.

Solymoly · 25/08/2024 09:26

Maybe the sulphur cloud got it

Crunchymum · 25/08/2024 09:23

Crows never forget. They have an epic memory.

Pray it wasn't a baby crow!!

KimKardashiansLostEarring · 25/08/2024 09:19

MsJinks · 25/08/2024 07:07

I actually once took a call on an out of hours emergency council line from a lady with a dead crow in her garden. She wanted someone to remove it now and was very upset. She told me people were stopping to look at it and her house too. It baffled me the strength of her feeling, but I was later told that in some villages a dead crow on your property is considered to be a real harbinger of doom and frightens folk.
No the council wouldn't go out at 10pm on a Saturday night (I didn't ask though tbf), and the lady was very angry at any suggestions she could ask a neighbour for help to remove it. She was mad at the council too but don't know what happened in the end.
This was 10 years ago now but definitely is a 'thing'.

I’m confused 😵‍💫 why would it be the council’s job to remove a dead bird from your garden - that’s private property?? What an oddball.

Aposterhasnoname · 25/08/2024 09:19

You live in the countryside and you’ve never seen a dead bird before, and you were screaming. Jaysus. Would have loved to have seen your reaction a couple of years ago on holiday, when a dead bird literally fell out of the sky into the swimming pool right onto some poor woman’s head.

sashh · 25/08/2024 09:14

I was once sitting in the garden with a friend and a pigeon dropped out of the sky dead.

It landed about a foot away from me. Well not landed really because, well dead.

Maybe the bird was just about to fly over your house and the same happened?

Or maybe we are doomed.

Hectorscalling · 25/08/2024 09:14

MsJinks · 25/08/2024 07:07

I actually once took a call on an out of hours emergency council line from a lady with a dead crow in her garden. She wanted someone to remove it now and was very upset. She told me people were stopping to look at it and her house too. It baffled me the strength of her feeling, but I was later told that in some villages a dead crow on your property is considered to be a real harbinger of doom and frightens folk.
No the council wouldn't go out at 10pm on a Saturday night (I didn't ask though tbf), and the lady was very angry at any suggestions she could ask a neighbour for help to remove it. She was mad at the council too but don't know what happened in the end.
This was 10 years ago now but definitely is a 'thing'.

See this makes no sense to me. The woman's thinking I mean.

That sort of thinking in small villages has come from a time really far back. When there wouldn't have been a council to come pick it up. Or an emergency council phone line to have it removed. And once a few villagers had seen it, everyone would know. So no need remove as an emergency case.

Surely along with the belief it's a bad omen, there's also the knowledge of how to deal with it and counter the bad omen. If they truly believe it's a bad omen simply removing it wouldn't help. The omen has already happened and people know.

Galoop · 25/08/2024 08:50

Dead birds are actually meant to be a sign of good luck! Rebirth or something like that

Wavescrashingonthebeach · 25/08/2024 08:44

BoobyDazzler · 25/08/2024 07:17

Ha! I used to do customer services for a similar org. and someone called up because they’d found a dead hedgehog in their garden and didn’t know what it was. They, too, were aghast that we wouldn’t go and remove it for them.

Jobs like that really do make you wonder if you’re the only normal person left on the planet, don’t they.

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Used to take repair calls for HA. Had a lady who threatened to burn the house down because I wouldn't send someone out over ants in her bathroom. That was fun.

brunettemic · 25/08/2024 08:44

We’re doomed if this is how people react to minor, insignificant things yes.

veritasverity · 25/08/2024 08:40

Did you really scream? I mean I could understand a short utterance of 'ewww gross' but an actual high pitch vocalisation of 'aaaaaaaghhhhhhhhhhh' seems a tad much, you maybe need to reconsider where you live, or learn some relaxation techniques (not meant as a criticism, just an observation from what you have written).
We once discovered a mummified rat under our floorboards, during renovation, that was a bit 'urgh, that's minging, but kinda fascinating in a weirdly repulsive way'.
Anyway back to you, no it's not the sign of the apocalypse, so chill on that front. If it was from the corvid 🐦‍⬛ family, they can be quite aggressive towards other corvids they don't recognise, as a result they'll 'fight' with their reflection in the glass, they can end up fighting to the death with themselves. So if you have a window close to your door, that could be an answer.
Next could be bird flu in your area, especially if there is no obvious sign of injury.
A cat could have injured / killed it and left it on your doorstep.
Could just be a very elderly bird, that for whatever reason dropped dead by your door step.
Anyway if you live in the countryside I'm afraid finding dead animals is par for the course. Just be very careful with how you handle any dead animal as zoonosis is alive and well.

letmego24 · 25/08/2024 08:34

You screamed? lol

Gedoverit · 25/08/2024 08:13

This is a bad omen, you probably need to consider moving house. Birds don't just die on doorsteps... guessing the neighbors lad doesn't have an air rifle?
Move out. Or move on.

Apollo365 · 25/08/2024 08:10

My mum screamed at a leaf on the kitchen floor once.
She thought it was a dead frog.
Ive never let her forget this story.

BunnyLake · 25/08/2024 08:08

JLou08 · 25/08/2024 07:49

This has happened to me and I screamed too, no idea why, maybe the shock of seeing something dead on my door step. Great for them strong (cold hearted) women who feel the need to belittle you for screaming and couldn't possibly understand someone having a reaction to seeing a dead animal.

Did OP’s husband scream though?

BunnyLake · 25/08/2024 08:06

JLou08 · 25/08/2024 07:49

This has happened to me and I screamed too, no idea why, maybe the shock of seeing something dead on my door step. Great for them strong (cold hearted) women who feel the need to belittle you for screaming and couldn't possibly understand someone having a reaction to seeing a dead animal.

It was a dead bird not a dead cow on her doorstep. I’ve come across many dead birds in my time.

Jifmicroliquid · 25/08/2024 08:05

You live in the countryside and you freaked out over a dead bird on your doorstep because you don’t know how it got there?

They walk among us.

BunnyLake · 25/08/2024 08:03

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?

I had a dead bird just outside my front door last week. I didn’t think anything of it except, oh dear that’s not nice. My son cleared it away.

Why the heck were you screaming?

Bodeganights · 25/08/2024 08:02

You were screaming?

I bet your super helpful in a crisis.

Sparklesandbeer · 25/08/2024 07:53

TransformerZ · 24/08/2024 23:45

We had a dead mole on the window sill. Had to be the cat, was really sad seeing his dead body like that. Poor creatures don't deserve to be scared of. Death happens to us all. It isn't a crocodile or XL Bully trying to attack you 🙄

Cats used to leave us diected mice on windowsills. Poor things were trying to feed us🙈

JLou08 · 25/08/2024 07:49

This has happened to me and I screamed too, no idea why, maybe the shock of seeing something dead on my door step. Great for them strong (cold hearted) women who feel the need to belittle you for screaming and couldn't possibly understand someone having a reaction to seeing a dead animal.

Swrfannies · 25/08/2024 07:44

Hope time line helps….

no maggots on it, it’s recently died!

Crawling in maggots, been dead a while!

Marseillaise · 25/08/2024 07:43

If you freak out and scream at dead birds in the countryside, how do you cope with all those dead chickens in the supermarket?

CatJ21 · 25/08/2024 07:43

How do you cope in the real world?

Pluviophile1 · 25/08/2024 07:39

I went out into the garden the other day and there was a headless pigeon chick laying by the back door. I was just happy not to have stepped on it. No screaming required and I don't feel doomed.