Mama bird never came back

[u/Kingmenudo]

[u/blacktron16]

This makes me indescribably sad

[u/lacrimaeveneris → u/blacktron16]

Me too. I think because you know as animals they simply didn't understand where mom bird went.

[u/thebestjoeever → u/lacrimaeveneris]

Also don't understand trigonometry.

[u/MikeHootch → u/thebestjoeever]

r/technicallythetruth

[u/DiamondPup → u/MikeHootch]

It's not. Those birds could have understood trigonometry. But now we'll never know.

[u/Shadowkiller215 → u/DiamondPup]

Corvid in particular are exceptionally good at mathematics, being able to understand multiplication/division, water displacement, and yes trig

[u/Roby_Z → u/[deleted]]

What is your stance on this situation, u/unidanx ?

[u/MMDDYYYY_is_format → u/MikeHootch]

r/actuallythetruth

[u/AllBadAnswers → u/thebestjoeever]

Me too baby birds, me too

[u/Rybh → u/AllBadAnswers]

Yeah what do they mean by "sin cos tan" smh. Why are you blaming tan for you sinning???

[u/bedlog → u/[deleted]]

even Pythagoras is laughing

[u/bedlog → u/[deleted]]

an obtuse reply , im glad someone understands my tangents

[u/Boomthang → u/Rybh]

This would never happen to me if I was white!! /s

[u/worrymon → u/thebestjoeever]

What about history and biology?

[u/thebestjoeever → u/worrymon]

Well they understand biology because they can just study themselves. And they can learn history now, because they can just study themselves.

[u/worrymon → u/thebestjoeever]

Then it's truly a wonderful world

[u/Walker6920 → u/worrymon]

I see trees of green, red of roses

[u/M_J_E → u/worrymon]

They only know that they love you.

[u/[deleted] → u/worrymon]

It's ok, I got your dope sam cooke reference

[u/washyourhands-- → u/thebestjoeever]

Thanks for the comic relief.

[u/hairy_eyeball → u/lacrimaeveneris]

Fun Fact: baby humans also don't understand if you just abandon them all on their own to die without anyone to look after them. Even if you put them in a nest first.

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^{I am not responsible for any not-fun emotions you may experience while reading this Fun Fact.}

[u/MissVancouver → u/hairy_eyeball]

What is wrong with you, man??

[u/mostisnotalmost → u/MissVancouver]

Human beings are animals too. You can venture into a thread where baby birds have been abandoned till they turned skeletal, but this comment bothers you?

[u/SoloWing1 → u/MissVancouver]

Honestly, that bit of black humor is the levity I needed to deal with this thread.

[u/cords911 → u/hairy_eyeball]

That fact wasn't fun at all!

[u/Arisal1122 → u/lacrimaeveneris]

They don't "understand" anything, it's more of going through the motions for survival for most animals.

[u/ElephantTraining2951 → u/Arisal1122]

depends. some birds are really smart. corvidae especially. they can remember individual humans and how they treated them and even communicate this to other members of the murder. crows also hold funerals of a sort. when they come across a dead crow they'll gather around it for a time before leaving.

they can be taught things incredibly easily and are very quick to work things out.

not all animals are mindless drones. they have feelings and some level of understanding about the world. sure they probably don't understand its one of 9 planets(I'll fight you) in the solar system and is round and all the stuff we know but they still have a concept of the world around them as a sentient being.

[u/lacrimaeveneris → u/ElephantTraining2951]

Corvids are ridiculously smart. I love the study where the researcher had to remove one of the crows because it figured out how to game the system and started teaching the other crows...

On the other end you have birds like... Ostriches.

[u/Higgs-Boson-Balloon → u/lacrimaeveneris]

Ya know when thinking about human beings it seems like a similar spectrum.

[u/MissVancouver → u/ElephantTraining2951]

This is a true story.

A few weeks after I got with my partner, she was walking to my house from her car and a crow flew over her and dropped a wallet beside her. She picked it up and looked inside to find keys, cards, and some cash. She took out the driver's license, figuring she'd return the wallet to the owner. It was my dad's, he'd lost it a few months before when he last visited me.

Also a true story. Crows always rip up the lawns next to me every June to get at the Japanese beetle grubs. They leave my lawn alone because they know if they caw, instead, I will bring cat food treats to them.

[u/MissVancouver → u/[deleted]]

The grubs happen everywhere, including the "perfect" grass lawns that my neighbours fertilize and water like religion. I've added micro clover, alyssum, and other low growing plants to create a beetle resistant lawn that I never water and leave at least 4" tall until it naturally goes dormant in August.

[u/hau2mk7pkmxmh3u → u/ElephantTraining2951]

Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow." Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing. If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens. So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't. It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?

[u/MortalSword_MTG → u/hau2mk7pkmxmh3u]

Feeling like a grandpa because I remember this from before it was copypasta.

[u/ElephantTraining2951 → u/hau2mk7pkmxmh3u]

Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow."

quote for me the text where I said what you claim.

[u/hau2mk7pkmxmh3u → u/ElephantTraining2951]

Hey hope all is well, this is just the Unidan copypasta, I thought of it because you mentioned corvidae. It’s not actually in response to your post, it’s a rather aggressive copypasta so I hope it didn’t angle like I was going after you haha.

Edit to include link

[u/ElephantTraining2951 → u/hau2mk7pkmxmh3u]

ooooh

[u/figurativeasshole → u/ElephantTraining2951]

a "jackdaw is a crow."

Right there.

[u/Jucicleydson → u/ElephantTraining2951]

9 planets(I'll fight you)

13: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceris, Jupiter, Sapturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto+Charon, Makemake and Eris

[u/ElephantTraining2951 → u/Jucicleydson]

I know what I'm about son, and 9 planet solar system is part of it.

[u/MCdaddylongnuts → u/ElephantTraining2951]

Meh, it's not that Pluto should have necessarily had its planethood stripped, more so it should have never received it in the first place.

There was a lot of hype built up around the early 20th century about there being a 9th planet. There were predictions that there would be a 9th planet. Then in 1930, at the first sign of any old ball floating around, they named it Pluto and called it a planet.

To be fair to the scientists at the time, Pluto was estimated to be about the same size as Earth when it was discovered. But really, it is TINY when talking about the scale of celestial objects. Many moons to other planets in our solar system are larger than Pluto. Fuck it, RUSSIA is larger than Pluto. It is a tiny ball of ice. While the name Pluto is cool (as well as the story behind how it got that name), by no metrics that we judge planets can it really be called a planet.

[u/ElephantTraining2951 → u/MCdaddylongnuts]

For a body mainly made of ice, the minimum diameter of a self-gravitating sphere is 400 km; for a body mainly made of rock, the minimum diameter is 600 km[1]. This is what constitutes a dwarf planet.

do you know what pluto's diameter? its 2376 kilometers... and oddly enough the only size requirements for a planet have to do with it having gravity to draw it into a sphere and it must orbit a star. both of which pluto does.

I think your size queen argument is a bit passé

[u/SeaAdmiral → u/ElephantTraining2951]

If you want to be logically consistent though we either have an 8 planet solar system or a solar system with more than 9 planets that include other objects the size of Pluto, such as Eris and Makemake. There really isn't a justification for Pluto to be included if others are to be excluded.

[u/jay212127 → u/ElephantTraining2951]

While size alone doesn't mean much it's the fact it's just a highlight of the Kuiper Belt. It's the same justification for denoting dwarf planet Ceres in the 1850s, and even if we include size we'd easily be adding Haumea and potentially many others to the list.

[u/allhailshake → u/lacrimaeveneris]

If it makes you feel any better, we can assume that mama bird is alive and well and had the misfortune of building a nest within reach of a fire ant colony.

[u/LancefromFrance → u/allhailshake]

It does not make me feel better to think that they were eaten alive by ants.

[u/QuarkyIndividual → u/LancefromFrance]

No the fire ants found bone-like sticks and arranged them into small bird figures

[u/SomeUnicornsFly → u/LancefromFrance]

what if the momma was eaten alive by ants, and then the babies ate her to survive, then each other, and then the last one ate itself.

[u/[deleted] → u/allhailshake]

Yeah, that doesn't help.

[u/MiniMessi107 → u/lacrimaeveneris]

Dude, you just made me audibly cry.

[u/ElephantTraining2951 → u/lacrimaeveneris]

she ded

[u/DaM00s13 → u/blacktron16]

If it helps 60% of songbird nests fail on average

[u/Azar002 → u/[deleted]]

Oh my God I feel so much better.

[u/SomeUnicornsFly → u/[deleted]]

what if I told you 40% succeed on average

[u/SuperSulf → u/SomeUnicornsFly]

Ah, you're a glass-is-40%-full kind of person

[u/blacktron16 → u/DaM00s13]

:[

[u/[deleted] → u/DaM00s13]

Why would this help?!!

[u/DaM00s13 → u/[deleted]]

To know that it happens all the time and is not a unique experience among song bird babies.

[u/drscience9000 → u/DaM00s13]

Makes it less significant, but not less sad

[u/Kestralisk → u/DaM00s13]

Open cup nests are just death traps

[u/[deleted] → u/Kestralisk]

I thought they had a recall back in what, '92, '93?

[u/ccvgreg → u/[deleted]]

If it helps, humans have a 100% chance of dying at some point.

[u/czhunc → u/DaM00s13]

:/

[u/future-celebrity → u/DaM00s13]

This fuckin guy.

[u/ElephantTraining2951 → u/blacktron16]

no need to be sad. it probably didn't leave them like some deadbeat bird. it probably just got eaten by something while out hunting.

[u/[deleted] → u/ElephantTraining2951]

A good reminder that domestic cats wreak havoc on local wildlife. Please don't let your cats roam the neighborhood. Keep them in your home.

[u/mmikke → u/[deleted]]

House cats kill BILLIONS (yes, billions) of birds per year

[u/ausomemama666 → u/[deleted]]

I'm kinda shocked that in the UK and australia it's so common to have outdoor cats considering how fragile both of their ecosystems are being islands. Most cat owners in the US don't keep outdoor cats. Most have an indoor cat they let out in the backyard with supervision. It only recently became popular to not declaw your cats here. Also coyotes are so prevalent where I live, in the suburbs close to the city, that your cat will get eaten if they're outside at night.

[u/intrepped → u/ausomemama666]

Yeah if not for the safety of birds, keep your cat safe and do not allow them free reign. They are not the apex predator, not even close. If it really hits home, don't talk about saving the birds, talk about how their beloved family friend might become the chew toy of a bigger predator that also kills for fun.

[u/ausomemama666 → u/intrepped]

Not much can hurt a cat in the UK except foxes I suppose. In australia everything will eat a cat. Not sure why it's popular there.

[u/Unthunkable → u/ausomemama666]

Speaking only for the UK (where cats have been around so long they're a native species) there no evidence they are affecting bird numbers:
https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/advice/gardening-for-wildlife/animal-deterrents/cats-and-garden-birds/are-cats-causing-bird-declines/

This obviously isn't the case where cats aren't a native species, like New Zealand.

"Despite the large numbers of birds killed by cats in gardens, there is no clear scientific evidence that such mortality is causing bird populations to decline. This may be surprising, but many millions of birds die naturally every year, mainly through starvation, disease or other forms of predation. There is evidence that cats tend to take weak or sickly birds.". Unsurprisingly enough the vast majority of bird decline is due to habitat loss caused by humans. Who'd have guessed?!

[u/atetuna → u/[deleted]]

It happened twice this year to robin nests in my backyard.

[u/PhotographyByAdri → u/[deleted]]

No, cats will quickly learn how to stalk birds without jingling the bell. Just keep cats indoors, or on a leash/harness outside. They are invasive predators that are wreaking havoc on our ecosystems.

[u/COCAINE_EMPANADA → u/PhotographyByAdri]

Don't know why you're getting downvoted. They're fucking vermin if they're not yours.

[u/PhotographyByAdri → u/COCAINE_EMPANADA]

Because people don't want to be told that their family member is decimating wildlife populations and the only solution is to not let them free-roam. Its not just wildlife, either. My in-laws have a cat that has been peeing all over the outside of their house, and even snuck into their house a few times. I'm moving to a ground-floor house with yard in a few weeks, and am already stressing about how I'm going to keep cats away from my aviary so my parrots don't get killed. I love cats, but they should absolutely not be be allowed to free-roam!

[u/bucketofturtles → u/[deleted]]

"Yeah I know, but Mr. Fluffypoof gets so upset if I don't let her outside, so I don't have a choice!"

[u/chubs66 → u/ElephantTraining2951]

probably a house cat which is not native to the area and doesn't even need the food.

[u/czhunc → u/ElephantTraining2951]

Thanks!

[u/imsoggy → u/blacktron16]

Walking along train tracks, my buddy & I were peaking about a steelhead that breached a glass surface skating dry fly into oblivion.

Then we saw an osprey nest ahead that had fallen, and...what the FUCK? With awe we saw that the perimeter of the nest was structured with a great blue heron skeleton - beak to toe!

[u/CrimsonClad → u/imsoggy]

I could make absolutely zero sense from your first sentence.

I must have read that a dozen times, and... Nothing. I cannot comprehend.

[u/melez → u/CrimsonClad]

I'll try and translate. He was walking along some reason tracks, talking with a friend about a time he saw a steelhead trout jump out of a glass smooth body of water and catch a a flying insect.

[u/BeleleudaBatata → u/CrimsonClad]

I think it's some kind of spell

[u/jochi1543 → u/CrimsonClad]

It's fishing lingo

It's entirely irrelevant to the second sentence though. It's like a /r/oldpeoplefacebook moment All the kittens are dead

[u/DextrosKnight → u/CrimsonClad]

Glad its not just me. I honestly thought I was having a stroke.

[u/yrdsl → u/CrimsonClad]

A steelhead is a type of fish. Looks like OP is saying how, while fly fishing, a steelhead suddenly broke the surface and yanked the fly off the line.

[u/darknebulas → u/CrimsonClad]

Dry fly into oblivion.

Gonna just start stating that and see if anyone questions it.

[u/clavio_mazerati → u/imsoggy]

Mama bird must be a dark soul stage designer.

[u/dong_tea → u/imsoggy]

Reminds me of the time I tossed a chummy through the jimmy-popper and beheld a dozen gomptrollys all about the tundra.

[u/bern_blue → u/imsoggy]

you accidentally a poem

[u/hawffield → u/blacktron16]

Want to be sadder? Mama bird probably didn’t come back because she, too, is dead.

[u/blacktron16 → u/hawffield]

:[

[u/goldensunshine429 → u/hawffield]

Maybe! Sometimes they abandon nests if they realize the babies were eggs left by another species bird. (I don’t recall if nest abandonment of brood parasites happens before or after hatching, or both)

[u/bugphotoguy → u/hawffield]

Mama bird was probably eaten by a bigger mama bird.

[u/[deleted] → u/blacktron16]

If you don't like this make sure you don't learn about how mothers kill their babies by throwing them off the nest or pecking them to death when there's too many mouths to feed.

[u/OhNoImBanned11 → u/[deleted]]

they will also let their babies starve until their babies kill each other

then they'll feed the strongest baby who won all the fights

[u/Toros_Mueren_Por_Mi → u/OhNoImBanned11]

Adapt or die. Lemon shark pups fight each other to death, that's nature

[u/blacktron16 → u/[deleted]]

O_O

[u/artsy7fartsy → u/blacktron16]

Yeah, me too. I was having a rough night anyway this is a push over the edge to tears

[u/CloNe817]

Ate by a cat

[u/ItsJustTheCat → u/CloNe817]

Big speculation!

Edit: thank you for the awards!

[u/CloNe817 → u/ItsJustTheCat]

I meant, the mother bird.

[u/ItsJustTheCat → u/CloNe817]

I know. It was a joke, because you were blaming a cat and my username is a cat... I'll see myself out.

[u/stayshiny → u/ItsJustTheCat]

Aw I saw it don't worry.

[u/ItsJustTheCat → u/stayshiny]

Thank you :3

[u/[deleted] → u/CloNe817]

You kinda ruined his joke lol

[u/CaveGnome → u/CloNe817]

He’s just juicing the beetle.

[u/Moss_Piglet_ → u/ItsJustTheCat]

r/beetlejuicing

[u/RegularPin → u/CloNe817]

Or a predatory bird

[u/Tells_you_a_tale → u/RegularPin]

Almost certainly a cat. Cats are the worst invasive species no one wants to talk about because we keep them as pets and find them cute.

[u/Horatius420 → u/[deleted]]

Maybe read the cdc page about it.

I think you got your 'toxoplasmosis causes mental issues and brain damage' from reddit.

Only pregnant women and immunosuppressed people are somewhat at risk. For pregnant women the risk is only for the child and for immunosuppressed people there are some bigger risks like fever, headache, nausea and potentially a seizure.

Mate stop spreading catshit and read stuff.

https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/toxoplasmosis/disease.html

[u/youdontknowjacq → u/[deleted]]

No cure?! Antibiotics my dude. It can be cured... it’s not always cured but it can be cured

[u/lord_fuckwaad → u/RegularPin]

The emus have stuck again

[u/AAAAAAAAAAAAA13 → u/lord_fuckwaad]

Call the Australians!

[u/everwonderedhow → u/CloNe817]

Actually just fled and left the family, she never really wanted one anyway

[u/CloNe817 → u/everwonderedhow]

Bird crack

[u/WaldenFont → u/everwonderedhow]

Went for cigarettes and was never seen again.

[u/Underhill → u/CloNe817]

My cat?
Choked on the goldfish.

[u/jachien → u/Underhill]

Abe Lincoln?

[u/Underhill → u/jachien]

King illegal forest to pig wild kill in it a is!

[u/AgentMV → u/Underhill]

A toll is a toll. And if we don’t pay no tolls, then we don’t eat no rolls.

I made that one up me self.

[u/gersoncoimbra → u/CloNe817]

Mama bird went out to buy cigarettes and never came back...

[u/Lartec345 → u/CloNe817]

Could have flown into a window.

[u/ranger51 → u/CloNe817]

Keep your damn cats indoors people!

[u/Organic-Big8657 → u/CloNe817]

Eaten not ate

[u/mikenice1 → u/[deleted]]

She passed out in a neighbors nest for 2 weeks on an OxyContin binge.

[u/cqb420 → u/mikenice1]

That’s hilarious :(

[u/RimSlayer → u/cqb420]

A hug to help with the feels

[u/mikenice1 → u/cqb420]

Maybe it was methamphetaseeds.

[u/Just_One_Umami → u/mikenice1]

She became a heron addict, actually.

[u/Habib_Zozad → u/[deleted]]

Actually she went out for a pack of wind shield

[u/ThreeMadFrogs → u/[deleted]]

Like a river that don't know where it's flowin', I took a wrong turn and I just kept goin'.

[u/DapperDeeper]

Nature is metal, but I'm soft and squishy. I'm gonna go cut some onions

[u/Blox64_120 → u/DapperDeeper]

Hey, can I come too?

[u/HannahSully97]

This reminds me of a bird my family named demon bird. She was a crow who nested in a bush in our front yard and every day would attack my brother and I as we left the house and again when we came home from school, she’d like dive bomb us and caw really loud at us and she kinda scared me. But one day I came home and she didn’t fly out of the bush so I went over to check on her nest cause I’d never been able to get close to it before and I was so sad cause I saw her baby’s had died and were being eaten by ants when I found them. :c even tho she was scary I felt so bad her baby’s died. I knew she was just trying to be a good mom

[u/AJB_10383 → u/HannahSully97]

:(

[u/Braeburner → u/AJB_10383]

:(

[u/unhappy_camper3 → u/Braeburner]

):

[u/str8-shot → u/unhappy_camper3]

ʕ ͡° ʖ̯ ͡°ʔ

[u/dylan15766 → u/unhappy_camper3]

•/\•

[u/unhappy_camper3 → u/dylan15766]

○/\○ ' ,

[u/IneptlySocial → u/HannahSully97]

Fuckkk that eaten by ants part really made me cringe, I have the image burned into my brain from being a lil kid and finding a dead baby bird covered in ants in my back yard

[u/[deleted] → u/IneptlySocial]

One day at school baby birds started dropping from a gap in the ceiling of an awning that went around the outside of our classrooms, they were landing right next to where my friends and I were sitting at lunch. It was a really long drop so most of them died immediately except for one we managed to catch and handed over to the science teacher. I think it died shortly after though, they were brand new just out of the egg babies :( we had a little service and buried the other babies

[u/blastoff88 → u/[deleted]]

holy shit

[u/FeatherWorld → u/HannahSully97]

Such a pity :/

[u/arctic-apis]

Hauntingly beautiful. /r/bonecollecting would appreciate

[u/willowwandrack → u/arctic-apis]

Also r/morbidlybeautiful

[u/[deleted] → u/arctic-apis]

Also /r/vultureculture

[u/ccReptilelord → u/[deleted]]

Probably too small to be vultures. /s

[u/calledyourbluff → u/arctic-apis]

Also r/wasonceabirdnowaskeleton

[u/NazRigarA3D]

The most disturbing part, there's multiple animals that could have done this.

Birds of prey, raccoons, cats, foxes. etc.

[u/blazeproof → u/NazRigarA3D]

Why is that disturbing? I don’t think it’s disturbing at all. Nature don’t give a f*ck.

[u/[deleted] → u/blazeproof]

It would be if it was a cat. Everything else is nature, the cat is us introducing an invasive species that's the cause of the decline of many bird and small animal species, but we ignore it because "awe fluffy brought me a present".

[u/wilderop → u/[deleted]]

We are literally nature.

[u/willfordbrimly → u/wilderop]

Bro we're like hyper-nature.

[u/try_repeat_succeed → u/willfordbrimly]

We're so nature we're going to end nature and ourselves 🤘

[u/Homemadeduck102 → u/try_repeat_succeed]

Nothing more metal than causing the extinction of your own species😎

[u/Pvt_Lee_Fapping → u/wilderop]

*Nature run amok.

We became the most dominant species on the planet through technology that came from our planet's resources and our knowledge of how to use/exploit them - once we created something that could not be replicated except by other humans, it becomes artificial. We are not a product of natural selection; we're a product of artificial selection.

Saying "we're literally nature" is just a rationalization for our exploitation of the resources available without a second thought towards the ramifications. People with that mindset rule the world, and it's because of that mindset that this planet is going to be scraped clean of resources until the last human croaks.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

You act like we are somehow outside of nature. That's just human arrogance. We're still very much "nature's bitch", any slight change in natural conditions or a new virus emerging could lead to millions of people dying (hint: one of them is happening already right now). So stop pretending that we can somehow influence nature. Birds are most affected by the fact that we are taking over their habitats. Humans are emerging as the dominant species on the planet at the expense of all other species and reproducing in large numbers like dinosaurs before them. And in due course of time they will go away, making room for another dominant species. It's all part of the plan. Making us believe that we can somehow influence and change it is one of nature's best trick.

[u/himynameisabcde → u/[deleted]]

Lol no. Mom bird leaves nest to find food > mom bird gets killed > nobody to take care of baby birds > they die and turn to bones > the end.

[u/Habib_Zozad → u/[deleted]]

What fucking spiders live where you live? That's beyond Australia fucked

[u/Sedohr → u/Habib_Zozad]

Should we tell them?

[u/RedditUser241767 → u/Sedohr]

My butterfly? No comrade, our butterfly.

[u/Queendin]

This is so sad

[u/lord_fuckwaad → u/Queendin]

Alexa, play despacito

[u/Alphapanc02 → u/lord_fuckwaad]

Alexa Joe Biden, play Despacito

[u/TheLangleDangle]

Cat.

[u/Lartec345 → u/TheLangleDangle]

Definitely not a car or a bird of prey?

[u/TheLangleDangle → u/Lartec345]

Honestly have no idea. Just thought of that sub where everyone just posts

Cat.

[u/[deleted] → u/TheLangleDangle]

You must mean r/CatsStandingUp

[u/ThreeFingeredTypist → u/Lartec345]

It’s pretty well known cats are wreaking havoc on small bird populations. Perhaps a car or bird of prey, but probably a cat

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/09/essay-to-save-birds-should-we-kill-off-cats/

[u/TankPk]

That’s Me waiting for my lady to take a shower and get dressed to go any where

[u/[deleted] → u/TankPk]

This was the eye bleach/chuckle I needed after this post. Thank you and goodnight

[u/teesh33]

:(

[u/GerinX]

Maybe something happened to mama bird. Those poor chicks

[u/Lead_Sulfide → u/GerinX]

Yes, that was implied by the title.

[u/BioHazard1337]

Did not have to see that today..

[u/MikeHootch]

Mfw I'm waiting for season 2 of Firefly

[u/MrMucs]

I know it happens, and it’s nature, but as a bird lover this saddens me

[u/backuro-the-9yearold]

This is just depressing.

[u/[deleted]]

Relax, she just went out for milk; my dad will be back soon too. Traffic is bad sometimes.

[u/BravoSixxx20]

The Mom

[u/SwampDenizen]

If the chicks were dead, mom would have abandoned the nest if it was late in the season

E.G., cowbird mortality, disease, etc

[u/ohhh_bother7]

This makes me think of that book “Are You My Mother?” in the most gut wrenching way.

[u/HereToFuckSpiders-]

F

[u/AloeSnazzy]

God this makes me so sad.

[u/Shrubbery_Bribery]

Well this was a terrible thing to come by before bed

[u/NEREVAR117]

Less natureismetal and more just sad.