What could have caused 2 wild birds to die together? UPDATED

julieb1987

I was also going to ask if there are any cats in the area? It's typical they put their "presents" in the same place

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

It's possible they ate seeds which were contaminated. But no guarantee there - somebody else could just as easily be using chemicals around you or spilled them into somewhere they bathed/drank - or it could be any number of other reasons.


Personally, I don't use weedkiller, pesticides, fungicides, slug pellets (that's a big killer of thrushes) or fertilisers in my town centre garden and it's filled with healthy plants and wildlife daily. So at least if I find anything out there, I know it's not anything I've done.

Person_one

I'm afraid our bird pathology CSI skills are not up to this task aliasojo, it may have to remain a mystery!

Sorry, but the picture made me chuckle a bit, I was half expecting chalk outlines and a little white tent!

jazabelle

aileth wrote: »

If it was my cats, there'd be a foot left from one and the other would be horribly mutilated.

Yeah, but not always. When one of my cats catches anything (very rarely!) he seems to drop it, then be like... now what? Then he gets bored and wanders off.

Still doesn't explain two!

Fluff15

There's a dead starling right outside our front room window too - we live in a block of flats and there's a couple of feathers around it, but before it decomposed there was no blood or injuries. We've figured it's just flown into the wall and died, or a bigger bird has scared it and it's flown into the building - we live next to open fields and I often see buzzards diving in and out.

It's been there for a few weeks now, and I couldn't bring myself to move it (freaks me out) and now nature has taken it's course and it's part of the grass now!

zaksmum

What's the brown thing to the right of the bird on the right?

Pechow

If they're that close to the window I'd be inclined to say also that they flew into it and broke their necks. It wouldn't have been weedkiller. I'd guess either they were fighting or escaping something (say, a bigger bird) and both flew that way and into the window.

aliasojo

zaksmum wrote: »

What's the brown thing to the right of the bird on the right?

It's a dead leaf off my rhododendron plant.

aliasojo

Person_one wrote: »

I'm afraid our bird pathology CSI skills are not up to this task aliasojo, it may have to remain a mystery!

Sorry, but the picture made me chuckle a bit, I was half expecting chalk outlines and a little white tent!

Yeah, you're all rubbish really.

(Wished I'd thought about the tent and chalk though. :rotfl:

As for the window, surely there would be some sort of mark on it? Especially if 2 of them had flown into it?

poet123

What about rat/mouse poison in a neighbours garden?