Bad Bird Luck

Bad Bird Luck

I’ve had a strange string of bad luck with birds. Being an animal lover I find it both odd and disturbing. The bad luck began when I was taking care of a neighbor’s three pet ducks on break from college several years ago. Their one female duck was about my age at the time, which is old for a duck. She was having trouble walking and after a few days refused to eat, obviously a bad sign. I went home upset and not sure what to do. I called a vet, but they didn’t take care of ‘farm animals’. My father seeing that I was troubled said, “Well I don’t think it was very nice of them to leave you with a duck that is about to expire.” Unfortunately, the duck did only had a few days left. While sad, the strange part was just starting. In that same week a bird hit my windshield near the local high school. Then one night after feeding the two remaining ducks I turned out of the driveway only to slam on the breaks as a small bird started to walk in front of the car. Fortunately the bird was unharmed, but instead of flying away he just continued to walk across the street. Now things were odd. To add to this string of bad bird luck, a couple weeks later when helping my sister move I couldn’t help but run over a seagull that had already died in the street. That was just the start of my bird incidents. A couple years later I was driving my father to work when two starlings (I believe) were chasing each other then dove strait down into my car. My father yelled, “You nailed them both!” While he sounded proud, I was disgusted. “No, I didn’t mean to,” was all I could say. All of this was very disconcerting, as normally I think I am good with animals, and it seemed like birds were committing suicide all around me. One of the most bizarre cases was one morning I was driving along and saw some movement on the right side of the road. Yet again I had to slam on my brakes as a turkey came sprinting across the road, continued running past my car down the street and into the woods. He appeared to be in a huge rush. Unfortunately there are additional incidents where the birds didn’t fare as well as the turkey. It doesn’t seem to be the car as it has happened in a couple different cars, it just seems that I have bad bird luck.

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