to think finding two dead blackbirds might be a bad omen?

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I think I probably am being silly and superstitious but when I went out to my car this morning there were two dead blackbirds (one male one female) on the drive - not obviously mauled by a cat. Please tell me IABU and that it isn't a portent of bad luck or whatever

If you're a blackbird it's a very bad omen as there's obviously a feline serial killer on the loose. If you're not then you'll be fine.

We found a dead blackbird squewered onto dh's car aeriel once- and we lived to tell the tale!

Cyb - that's a good idea. So many people use that ping pong ball trick now you can never work out which car is yours.

lol

Yes, bad omen. Not nearly enough to bake into a pie.

good - just being stupid then.

were they babies?

no - adults. Babies I would have understood albeit the wrong time of year - we've had baby birds dropped in the garden before - by birds of prey I expect.

No dead blackbirds not an omen, but apparently it's unlucky to have a bird fly into your house. So let's hope your posting name isn't literal.

adult blackbirds are really bad parents and push their babies out of the nests apparently. Perhaps the babies decided it was payback time.

I once stepped out of my front door and a dead pheasant landed on the ground right next to me, with a thump and a cloud of feathers! Poor thing had obviously expired in mid flight, missed me by a foot.

We have a local sparrowhawk kills lots of blackbirds in our garden. But there is normally a feathery mess everywhere with them.

Its not one of those lateral thinking puzzles is it where they are called Romeo and Juliet and are pieces on a Monopoly board?

How did you know they were male and female? Was one wearing a dress.

Female blackbirds aren't black, they're brown.

............and males have orange beaks where the laydee has a yellow one

i had a cat leave dead blackbird in my handbag once, i found it in the queue in the bank.

@ fishie

did you pay it in?

oohhh [impressed]

Lol - I've got a vision of fishie taking a dead blackbird out of her bag in the bank, looking at it with mild curiosity and nonchalantly putting it back.

pmsl

like a scene from a David Lynch film

might be worth asking the neighbours if they have been using any rodent poison, and ask them to keep it better covered up if so

Well it depends if the cat that killed them was black and came from the left or the right.

I wouldn't worry, but then again I own a jet black cat who frequently tries to kill me by tripping me up on the stairs - which is probably considered lucky somewhere in the world.

Possibly someone has put out something for the birds that's gone off. If it was smaller birds I'd suspect an infected birdtable but blackbirds are usually ground feeders.

I was once staying at a large country house in scotland and a pheasant flew in through in through the (unopened) window. So a couple of days later, brace of birds one with the usual shot to pick out, the other with glass shards.

i pretended it wasn't there, went about my banking.

then rushed out to high street and disinterred it into nearest litter bin.