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?

Yes came home to a dead wood pigeon on my drive. I guessed it flew into the overhead telephone cables? But on checking on my security camera the daft thing flew into the fence and broke its neck, nothing sinister with dead birds usually accidents or nature.

Cat. End of.

Birds don't always choose where to die, but your doorstep may have felt like a safe place for the poor bird who felt unwell and knew it's time had come.

You screamed at a dead bird? And you live rurally? What the actual?

🤣

Possibly just lives locally? We have multiple families of red tailed kites, no nature reserve.

I despise the fact the app does not have the facility to thank posters (and I darent quote them all) but this is already gold for me 🤣

To add a few weeks ago I was greeted by a beautiful, but very dead, thrush on my doorstep. I cursed the local cats (who also deposit various amounts of shit everywhere that I am working through methods of deterrent for...but that's another story...) until I turned around and saw the spray of blackberry hued bird shit all down the door and window...it had obviously unloaded it's bowels on contact with the window...still, am assuming it was fairly instant.

Nothing of considerable doom has happened thus far...well for me anyway, the bird in the poop bag in the black bin would say different could it speak from beyond the grave....

@TitsInAbsentia
That made me chuckle. As did your username 🤣

Good grief, far too much drama over a dead bird! Is this how you usually respond to a perfectly normal (although marginally unpleasant) occurrence?

There are numerous ways it could have ended up there. I've seen two baby gulls slide down the roof of my house and crash land in front of my door and knock themselves out, so that's an option.

I've had a green woodpecker artfully arranged on a rug thanks to a cat. Various rats, mice, birds etc too. No longer have a cat, so mainly suicidal pigeons now which fly into the windows and expire.

Oh OP no you're not doomed 🤣 a neighbourhood kitty brought you a present no doubt.

A few years back I was working out in a field (was working with livestock) and a headless pigeon fell out of the sky and landed right at my feet 😅 I did have a feeling that it could be a bad omen but alas it was probably a hawk that had dropped it!

Doomed, doomed. We're all doomed!
If it was a raven...but it seems to be a crow.

Have you ever been to the Sistene Chapel op?

You’ll soon be desensitised OP. Life in the countryside is in essence closer contact with random carcasses. If it’s small animal rather than a horses head or entire cow you are doing fine!

This thread reminded me of the time I found a huge decapitated crow lying on DDs white duvet.

Bastarding cat 😺

A sparrowhawk literally fell out of the sky and landed dead (or at least very much on its way) at my feet the other week. Now that was mental.

You are correct that a crow is an omen of death. And a dead crow is worse.

However it is more likely that it met with an accident, a cat, fox or bird of prey attack or flew into your window.

I'd feel creeped out but actually it's nothing to worry about unless you've crossed the local witch...

At least not a headless deer outside your front gate.
Saw one in Scotland and the house owners/council? left it there for days.
Have had two birds outside the front door on two occasions.

When I lived in a Cumbrian cottage with open fireplaces 30 years ago, I was woken up early one morning by a bit of a kerfuffle as the cat shot off the bed, hissing and growling. A moment later I heard a squawk and looked up to see a crow perched on top of the wardrobe.
Fortunately the bird was able to be released via the window and both crow and cat lived to tell the tale so I wasn't doomed 😁And for those who wonder, yes - my cat was jet black.

Birds do sometimes die in the open. They have to die somewhere. Perhaps a neighbourhood moggy made you an offering?

You could drive yourself silly thinking it to be more than that.

If it worries you, find out from your local RSPB if there is any sort of bird disease going around the area. That might put your mind at rest.

Do you have a window in your front door? Could it have stunned itself on that or another window in the house and knocked itself out? You can get stickers to go on glass - such as butterflies - which tell the bird it is glass and not open.

Happens every other fathers day... we have a murder that lives on our roof and every breeding round one overly curious fledgling will fall down the chimney.

The cats are useless and cower in the corner (although probably far better than a blood bath) and we have to catch the damn thing to put back outside for mama crow to come get.

Fun fact: birds tell their children off too when they do something they're weren't suppose to.

Crows are nothing of the kind. Study them. You will find they are unbelievably intelligent creatures and the love and respect they have for one another.

It is a myth created by filmmakers.