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?

You screamed?
Are you ok?
That's a genuine question, not a dig at you.
It's just that screaming is such an odd reaction that I wonder if maybe there are other things troubling you right now.

Probably flew into the house, we found a dead bird and full on blood splatters on top of our caravan on the drive.

Screaming and googling to see if it's some kind of omen is a bit of an overreaction I think.

Yes you are doomed.

Every crow, raven, jackdaw type bird will target your house now and dive bomb you to peck out your eyes every time you leave home.

It’s the screaming that did it. Should have kept your mouth shut.

Time to move but make sure “The Birds” don’t get any idea of where you’re going as they could still exact their revenge

Ever thought of emigrating… now’s the time.

We came home to this n our garden this week. It is protecting it's lunch which it proceeded to pluck and scoff within a metre of me. Completely unfazed by me being there.

I live opposite ds school and one day walking down the street, taking him to school, I found a dead crow (might have been a raven) right in the middle of the path, the kids and parents were all freaking out.

I asked the school reception for a bag, picked it up, took it home a buried it. I had to cover it in strong smelling herbs like cloves and cinnamon to make sure it wasnt dug up by a fox or anything. But job done. Dp came down in the middle of it, looked at me getting the herbs out, asked what I was doing when I said ‘burying a bird that was dead on the street’ he just ‘oh ok’ and left me too it.

Thinking about it, That was one of my better years. A company I had shares in, sold to a PE company and I got enough to pay all my debt off. So maybe your aren’t doomed. Maybe you are about to have a change in luck?

I do have now have a reputation as the village death witch though, now. So swings and roundabouts 😂

Honestly, it’s just a bird. They die. Sometimes near where people are.

Norwegian Blue?

Aren’t Norwegian Blues parrots?
I was thinking of maybe all the corvid types but I’m sure the Norwegian Blues wouldn’t be averse to joining in.

Sorry all these bird-confident PPs have been crowing over your scare, OP...
But screaming and then trying to google 'dead bird on doorstep' is a rather extreme reaction to a commonplade event.
Unless of course, you are undertaking criminal activitiy, and you've tried to talke the territory of a a rival OCG

A fox left it there or a bigger bird of prey dropped it mid-flight (this is a definite thing).

Since moving to the countryside, I've lost count of the number of dead animals I've had to deal with. Our cats have brought indoors, live and dead mice, shrews, a blackbird, a woodpecker, a snake. I've also had to remove 4 ticks from myself this year (I seem to get 4 or 5 a year). It was an unexpected challenge when I first moved here, but I've got less squeamish over the years.

🤣

This thread is hilarious

Have you never been outside before Op?

An unfortunate pigeon landed on my sister’s balcony - there’s a tiny gap on the floor where the cat must have got its claw through. All they found was a severed leg… it was disgusting.

Is seeing a dead bird a thing then?

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'.

Well at least it wasn't a fish which would indicate that a friend or acquaintance now sleeps with the fishes.

We had a pheasant fly into a window at such speed that it smashed through the window and then ran all round the house covered in blood and feathers, poor thing. Very sad and very gross.

Was driving on the road where I lived and a pigeon fell to the ground right in front of my car. I stopped to see if it was ok and an elderly couple explained that they had found it injured and thrown it into the air 'to help it fly to safety'. And of course it had crashed to earth.

I exchanged pigeon-related pleasantries, got into my car and pulled off. Wham! It landed on my bonnet. They had made a second attempt.

It was the most counterproductive attempt at kindness I have ever witnessed.

Btw, It's a bit sad that there have been so many needlessly harsh responses on the thread. I suspect that the OP talked up her shock a bit for the sake of humour. Seems daft to castigate her.

So far this summer we have had a bat circling like crazy in the spare room like some kind of high speed Halloween attraction, a kestrel in the kitchen (flew in through the bifolds and thought he could get out of the roof lantern), a very large dragonfly dead on DDs pillow since it got under her bed canopy and couldn’t get out and a dead fox on the road opposite the house which a lazy council worker wouldn’t move so it now has white lines running over its body.

we’re fucked on your logic op. No need for screaming.

I don't even live in the countryside and I've seen dead pigeons outside my house. Even my pre-schooler didn't freak out when she saw a dead one that was being pecked by crows. I told her that's just what crows naturally eat as they're carrion birds and it's good for them (rather than takeaway leftovers!)

It's the circle of life

Haha omg your neighbours sound very daft

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.

Pigeon did the same into my front window and ended up on bonnet of my car. What a thump when he hit the window. We were watching telly and felt it for it.