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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Crows never forget. They have an epic memory.

Pray it wasn't a baby crow!!

Maybe the sulphur cloud got it

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

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).

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

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.

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!

@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 🧟‍♀️

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.

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

Corvid birds have funerals/wakes for their fallen comrades.

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

OMG an outbreak of CORVID 24.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

It is a gift. You are the chosen one.

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

The magpies were not happy.

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