Does this mean we are doomed…?

[Undertherainbow00]

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?

It’s a dead bird. Not a dead human.

Christ alive how do people get through life.

Oh come on. A cat may have left it there - it’s hardly a horses head in your bed!!

Bit of an overreaction. Probably been put there by a cat.

A cat probably got it, or it crashed into the door, or maybe it was sick and died of natural causes. Or any one of a million things, none of which mean you are doomed.

Could it be a present from your cat (if you have one)?

Could it have flown into a window and fatally injured itself?

This. Or possibly been struck at by a bird of prey, who dropped it with no obvious damage, though this is far less likely than just having flown into the door/window.

Did you move to the countryside yesterday, OP? How do you cope with foxes having sex, bats getting into the house, badgers setting off your security lights?

Yes, we had similar a few months ago, I posted on here. We had a dead butterfly on our front garden little path and then a beautiful little bird with all different colours, never seen that type of bird before, but it’s possible our dog tried to play with it and it met its end 🥲

Eg? It died there or a cat or fox left it there. Chill.

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 🙄

Absolutely, allllll doomed

Screaming? Over a dead bird? Did you visit the Sistine Chapel a while ago?

Tis a good job you didn't see the decapitated pigeon that was outside my house a few weeks ago.

Quick turn nine times spit and sacrifice a goat.

Screaming fgs

I trod on a dead pigeon on my doorstep earlier this year. I shouted "oh Jesus Christ" which I think shocked my elderly neighbour a bit, but in my defence it had surprised me.

I assumed one of my delightful shitbag cats had left it for me, rather than it being the beginning of the End of Days.

Why would you be doomed if a dead bird was on the doorstep?

A dead bird? We'd better all go stockpile toilet roll again.

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.

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.

A magpie drowned in our paddling pool once (no idea how but DS removed the body with a tennis racquet and sandcastle bucket, I am completely phobic about birds so he was my little hero) then couple of days later one got tangled in the net of the football goals. I had to phone rspb to do the rescue. It must've been a baby- mummy magpie was circling and swooping to protect it. I did think I was jinxed after that but I'm still here to tell the tale.

This happened to a friend of mine. Scream some more and the true reason it was put there will be apparent

You were screaming? Actually screaming because of a dead bird? 🙄

We had a dead pigeon on the grass verge outside our house. I left it a few days to see if a fox or the council would deal with it for me. They didn’t, so I shovelled it into a bag for life (the irony), and put it in my wheelie bin.

No bad luck to report. In fact a few days later I won a bottle of Ribena at a tombola.