# I found a dead blue bird in my front yard: Bad omen? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 25, 2009, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-dead-blue-bird-in-my-front-yard-bad-omen/500998 "2009-06-25T23:27:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-dead-blue-bird-in-my-front-yard-bad-omen/500998/1 "2009-06-25T23:27:49Z")
Went to the dentist today and in my front yard was a dead bluebird. I haven’t ever seen a blue bird in the wild until this year - and now I’ve seen two: both dead… This can’t bode well. ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-dead-blue-bird-in-my-front-yard-bad-omen/500998/2 "2009-06-25T23:58:36Z")
Unfortunately blue birds are often victims to a lot of non-native bird species that attack both the adult blue birds and their young. It’s really very sad since they are such beautiful birds. If you want to try to see more blue birds, you could try putting a bluebird nestbox on your property or offering meal worms at a bird feeder. The efforts people have made to try to provide nesting areas to bluebirds have been helping the population come back a bit in recent years. There is a lot of info on bluebird conservation here: [http://www.nabluebirdsociety.org/gettingstarted.htm](http://www.nabluebirdsociety.org/gettingstarted.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-dead-blue-bird-in-my-front-yard-bad-omen/500998/3 "2009-06-26T00:01:16Z")
If you get a pellet gun and kill all of the Mockingbirds on your property, the rest of the Bluebirds should be safe and your luck will definitely change. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-dead-blue-bird-in-my-front-yard-bad-omen/500998/4 "2009-06-26T01:10:46Z")
It’s certainly a bad omen for bluebirds. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-dead-blue-bird-in-my-front-yard-bad-omen/500998/5 "2009-06-26T02:33:40Z")
_Shakes fists at **GuanoLad** _ I was just about to post that! ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-dead-blue-bird-in-my-front-yard-bad-omen/500998/6 "2009-06-26T03:14:11Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > Went to the dentist today and in my front yard was a dead bluebird. > > I haven’t ever seen a blue bird in the wild until this year - and now I’ve seen two: both dead… > > This can’t bode well. Is it a blue bird or a bluebird? Just wondering. I’d only worry if it were a blue jay, as they are of the corvidae family and could be a vector for the West Nile virus. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-dead-blue-bird-in-my-front-yard-bad-omen/500998/7 "2009-06-26T06:00:20Z")
It was a bluebird. Had it been a blue jay I wouldn’t have thought anything of it, as they are not, to my knowledge, associated with happiness, and their death on my front lawn would not seem to be a bad omen. ---
**Author:** ![horsetech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dec6dc/32.png) [@horsetech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/horsetech)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-dead-blue-bird-in-my-front-yard-bad-omen/500998/8 "2009-06-26T06:21:13Z")
Keep your eye out for the Chicken of Depression. ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-dead-blue-bird-in-my-front-yard-bad-omen/500998/9 "2009-06-26T07:02:40Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > It was a bluebird. Had it been a blue jay I wouldn’t have thought anything of it, as they are not, to my knowledge, associated with happiness, and their death on my front lawn would not seem to be a bad omen. Well, they’re lovely birds, but omens they are not. “Bluebird of Happiness” is just a treacly song. My husband’s grandmother loved it, so he plays it over and over again in his car. That bluebird does not make me happy. \ ---
**Author:** ![Marienee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Marienee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marienee)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-dead-blue-bird-in-my-front-yard-bad-omen/500998/10 "2009-06-26T13:42:17Z")
I had an uncomfortable day last week when I discovered that a baby robin had flown into the house. I managed to show it the way out, and this time of year we have hosted temporarily any number of baby birds big enough to come out of the nest but too stupid to avoid cats, or not big enough to not fall into the garden. But doves, crows, and so on just don’t have the omenic punch of a robin in the house. Still, nobody dead yet. My husband has been teasing me ever since, but I can’t help it. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-dead-blue-bird-in-my-front-yard-bad-omen/500998/11 "2009-06-26T18:24:59Z")
> [@](#): > > I found a dead blue bird in my front yard: Bad omen? If you touched it, I see Bird Flu in your future. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-dead-blue-bird-in-my-front-yard-bad-omen/500998/12 "2009-06-26T20:20:38Z")
Wow I haven’t heard this since I was a little. Definately a dead blue bird is a very bad omen. But some quick online research indicates you can counter-act this bad omen with good omens. Rabbits foots or sleeping on sheets that haven’t been ironed should counter act this according to Google 🙂 If a bird flies into your house that means death will follow. An owl that nests in your house is a sign of bad luck. Owls are OK if they are elsewhere on your property like the barn or a tree, but a sign of awful things if they are nesting on your house somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-a-dead-blue-bird-in-my-front-yard-bad-omen/500998/13 "2009-06-26T20:53:57Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > Wow I haven’t heard this since I was a little. Definately a dead blue bird is a very bad omen. But some quick online research indicates you can counter-act this bad omen with good omens. Rabbits foots or **sleeping on sheets that haven’t been ironed should counter act this according to Google** 🙂 > \ I must be one lucky sumbitch! I never ever iron sheets. 🙂