I came home and found this on my doorstep this evening:
No note, no explanation. I’m not sure if a neighbor is unhappy with my always-hopping bird feeder, but there’s something disturbing and almost poetic about it, like a Joseph Cornell creation.
Either that, or I’m in bunny boiler territory.
Comment by John Anthony Sperling
October 27, 2006 @ 6:43 am
Creepy. I would freak out.
Comment by aka frank
October 27, 2006 @ 6:48 am
maybe some CDC representative accidentally left his bird flu sampler on your doorstep.
maybe not.
Comment by Melissa
October 27, 2006 @ 8:56 am
They weren’t real birds, were they? I feel so sick thinking they were real birds. Please don’t let them be real birds. What kind of crazy person dislikes birds?
I’m one of those people who has no problem watching people shoot each other’s heads off, but if you even look wrong at an animal, turn on the waterworks.
I’ll say a blessing for your birds, your doorstep, and your obviously sick (but meticulously clean, for s/he went out and got a surgical glove to handle them) neighbor.
Comment by Lee
October 29, 2006 @ 3:35 am
Eww! Definite bunny boiler territory! (”I won’t be ignored, Dan!”)
Comment by dogpoet
October 29, 2006 @ 11:02 pm
The birds were, alas, very real, and very dead. They didn’t appear to show any signs of external trauma, but then again I didn’t take them out of the bag and poke at them.
Comment by Mike
October 31, 2006 @ 4:46 pm
That is deranged. I’d of at least made a report to the police.
Comment by jimbo
November 8, 2006 @ 12:28 pm
That’s wierd. The birds are cedar waxwings, and travel in flocks. They prefer berries. Do you have a berry bush near your house? Or they may have been migrating and hit your window? Or the deliverer thought you were a biologist? Maybe put one of those falcon sihlouettes on your window…
Anyhow, if you still have them, donate them to a local biology department. The ornithology professor would appreciate it. They will keep well in the freezer.
Comment by brent
November 23, 2006 @ 1:10 am
That is CREEPY! I love that Jimbo knows all about the birds, I love him!
Comment by DougT
December 13, 2006 @ 4:58 pm
The birds look to me as though they have been collected for deposit in a museum collection. If they show no visible trauma, they likely died in a window impact. We get birds bagged this way at the museum where I work with some frequency- especially at this time of year. Not sure why they would be placed at a private residence.
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