Bird died in front garden and butterfly a month ago

[Itsabusytwoweeks]

I’m not generally a woo type person, but around a month ago, I opened our front door and there was a dead butterfly on our front garden path leading to the gate.
This morning a beautiful, coloured bird was lying on the same bit of garden path (bit further up) he/she was alive, but it’s leg looked damaged, I tried to gently push it back over to try and stand but it couldn’t. I went to get a basket/box to take it to the vets 🤷🏻‍♀️ (didn’t know what to do with it, but couldn’t just leave it. When I came out, it had died.
Just been Googling about dead birds and remembered the butterfly and feel a bit freaked out.
Worth mentioning I have a dog, who although lovely and kind was outside before I saw the bird…so I don’t know..wouldn’t explain the butterfly though

Butterflies have short lives and birds are killed by cats and dogs all the time.No woo needed. Yabu and stop googling nonsense.

If my dog did it, why just leave it and not attempt to I don’t know, eat it though

Dogs and cats chase/play with birds and mice until they die. They generally lose interest after that.

Sorry nothing woo about that, just a coincidence

Dogs don't tend to eat their prey I thought? They are retrievers aren't they?

It's just a coincidence. Coincidence is underrated as a scientifically plausible explanation for things, often in favour of much more woo explanations.

So what is your ‘woo’ theory? That your garden path is a death zone? Maybe better steer clear just in case!

@Anxiouslump Not helpful 😬

Er….what?

Ahh didn’t know dogs just did that, stupid, just pointless, poor bird 😔

@Liv999 Yes, I didn’t think much of it until I stupidly Googled 🙄

I’m sorry but I don’t know what you want help with? I will try to help if you can explain your problem. Are you genuinely worried you are going to drop dead in your garden?

Birds also sometimes fly into windows and break wings/legs or get hit my cars. Often causes massive internal bleeding and they die quite quickly. It wasn't necessarily your dog (or any other dog/cat)

@Uncooperativefingers It’s true, but I suspect it may have been. I came home and let my dog out for a wee and went in the kitchen, I heard rustling leaves etc, when I went out the bird was on the path, it could have fallen out of the tree though

I think you may be overthinking this OP. Everything dies, it has to die somewhere, etc.

Can't believe you've even given it a second thought!

Maybe warn your postman, just in case.

You’re being ridiculous. The butterfly was probably hibernating in someone’s shed, got disturbed and died in the cold. The bird probably fought with another bird or escaped from a cat or flew against a wall window or something. “Two completely different creatures that die all the time happen to die in the same location” barely even registers as a coincidence and it doesn’t need an explanation. Nothing abnormal has happened. It’s a non-issue.

What, exactly, are you worried about?

Most butterflies only live for a month or two, some only a couple of weeks. If you are in the UK the butterfly you found was almost certainly one of the few sorts that hibernate, they can live for nearly a year. You'd think you'd see more dead ones...
We have buzzards, kestrels and sparrowhawks in the area, we often find patches of feathers and occasionally dead birds in the garden where they've been dismembering their prey.

Our dog's two puppies dragged a live sparrow into the house, played with it, killed it and left it in the lounge. They do stuff like that.

Huh?

Tbh I’m just amazed you saw a butterfly in this god awful weather. Dont they need sun or something? X

This. If you made a tile wall using a random number generator to pick colours, it wouldn't look nicely random. Someone I know actually did it to prove this. There would be patterns and clumps and weird things. Because 'random' also involves things that look like that.

Life has weird coincidences and odd patterns. Our brains are wired to see these as significant, evolutionarily it's useful. But it does lead us to think things are woo when they aren't.

Your house probably has bad karma Op. Definitely get a priest in to bless your house, before anything else happens

Our lab killed a bird once. It flew past him and he instinctively snapped and grabbed it mid air. It all happened so fast. Then he dropped it and looked at it and just appeared confused at what just happened, then walked away from it. I don’t think he would have eaten it if I left him to it.