For as long as I can remember, I've been told that birds are messengers. If ever and whenever a bird should come into your home, for whatever reason, be prepared for some message.
Usually, the message is of some one's death. It's actually happened quite a few times in the past, but I've often linked it to pure coincidence, and the fact that there are numerous bird, or small animal-sized entry points throughout the home. One of the instances I remember was more than eight years ago, if I recall correctly, where a bird perched itself over my parents' bed. Later that night, we received word that "Nen", an aunt, had passed. Other incidents, and I know there have been, I can't recall with any sort of accuracy at the moment.
Tonight, well... yesterday night, around 7:00, I was told that "Auntie I-ver", which should have been "Eva", her real name, something I never understood, but I digress. I was told that she may have passed on.
Coincidentally, I was listening to a song about death, well... suicide, not particularly death, "Somberly, without regret, I make another sandwich and I fill my face, and know that things have got to you, but what can I do?", while eating a sandwich.
Somewhere along the way, before 10 that night, I wondered why I hadn't heard of any bird-sightings in the house. I do remember nearly killing a bird that was slow to get out of the way while I was driving... or was that Tuesday? I didn't touch it though.
Either way, I hadn't seen, nor had I heard of anyone seeing a bird in the house. Oddly enough, just before 11, a bird flew into the house, made a half-loop, and then flew right back out, as if to say "Don't try to stop me."
"What the hell?" I thought, seeing as I had wondered about the spirit messenger bird earlier on. I phoned my mother, to let her know, and she said that maybe Auntie Iver was just passing through to say "Bye" on her way up and out. Maybe, she was saying "Remember to remember me, standing still in your past; floating fast like a hummingbird."
(In case you're wondering, the first snippet of lyrics came from "Ease your feet off in the sea", by Belle & Sebastian, and the second came from Wilco's "Hummingbird")
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... what happens if a brown dove flies into the wall beneath your bedroom window breaks its neck and dies?
I don't think we got the news of anyone's death after that, except for the bird's.
And once found a half-decayed carcass of a crow in the backyard and cremated it because there was too little of it left to go through the hassle of boxing and burial.
And my dog killed a couple birds- doves, too, I think.
What do dead birds mean?
btw I think your mom is right.
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