Pining for the Fjords, or Dead Birds Everywhere

[siren_of_psych]

Today had a theme: Dead Birds.

On the way home from danigurlyo's, I took an alternate route (on purpose!!) and went through Barron, WI, which has a Jennie-O turkey plant in THE MIDDLE of the town. That was odd enough, that the plant wasn't situated on the outskirts, that it had houses all around it, a church, school, stores, a restaurant. All these

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[siren_of_psych]

No. It's not by a window. It's really weird. Would they have gone into the pool for a bath, realizd it was too deep and ended up drowning?

I feel bad. I usually have a makeshift bird bath set up that the birds love more than actual bird baths (a saucer snow sled with a couple inches of water and some nice, flat rocks set in the center of it for the smaller birds.) This had been overturned. I'm worried they came looking for their usual bath and, finding it out-of-order, used the deep (well, for a sparrow) pool instead.

But that wouldn't explain the broken necks.

Of course, they were dead and, therefore, quite floppy. Birds, having so many more neck joints than humans, therefore having very flexible necks, perhaps their necks only APPEARED to be broken, and they were really just ultra-flexible due to having no muscle tone.

[siren_of_psych]

Yep. And rigor mortis, once it sets in, only does so for a set amount of time, then the chemical bond which causes the rigor, breaks, and the body becomes flaccid again.

[sweetbabyjayne]

that must have been so hard for you! i hate seeing dead things period and you love birds so much. :(

[siren_of_psych]

You, on the other hand, would have been, "Die, birds, DIE!" ;-)

I was a tad bit taken aback by Tristan dropping the sopping wet sparrows at my feet. That was a bit much for me on that particular day. Though, I suppose many women would have run around screaming and making fools out of themselves.

[sweetbabyjayne]

YOU'RE A MEANYPANTS!!
I don't want them to die! Hee hee. I just don't like birds pecking at my eyelashes. That's fair right?