But none of them are about birds in my house

Think positive! (Of course, be happy that it didn't fly up your nose!)

we get them in our house all the time, all still alive here

We have a very dear friend who has just been told his recurrence
of esophageal cancer is not treatable.

And I have a 94 year old uncle who has been hanging on--losing lots of weight and
his ability to even recognize his son--that I expect to hear any day will have passed.

into our house and she was really scared and upset about it. I thought at the time that there would be a death in the family because she was going to die of fright.

a bird flies into a window. That's what I always heard...

had to die before it was a premonition of a death.

Probably about 15 years ago a bird swooped in front of my car when I was driving home from work and I hit it. The next day a good friend of my cousin was killed in a car accident. My cousin claimed that she had a "funny feeling" all day that something bad was going to happen because I killed that bird.

Have you ever SEEN the bottom of a bird cage?

Or the mangled houseplants after a bird lands on 'em.

had to be upstairs while the others tried to chase it out the door. All it did was fly around and managed to poop on the sleeve of my husband's jacket because just the sleeve was sticking out of the hall closet.

Had NO idea how it got there.

A few days later, I heard the muffled sounds of a cat "meowing".
I didn't think that much of it, because we had an (indoor) cat, and
I figured she was upstairs somewhere....

The next day, I heard the meowing again, and I thought my cat was
trapped in a drawer or a closet somewhere. I started looking all over and
calling my cat. The meows sounded like they were coming from the second
floor. I went back down to the first floor, still looking for the source of the
meows, and my cat walked up from the basement, right in front of me!

At this point, I knew there was another cat in the house. It took me another
day to figure out it was stuck in the CHIMNEY. Every time I had walked by
the fireplace, the cat stopped meowing! I took a flash light and took a look
up there....sure enough, two green eyes flashed at me. It was scared to death!

I called animal control, they told me it had to be a raccoon. I insisted that, as
far as I know, raccoons don't MEOW. They refused to come out and help me.
I called a chimney cleaner who came over... it turned out that when my chimney
was built, they put too much cement between the bricks, and it had splayed out into
the chimney area, creating "shelves" of cement. The cat was stuck on a ledge.
(This also explained why my fireplace never worked properly!). The chimney repair
guy came in with iron poles and started jabbing at the cement blockage, and before
long, the cat fell down the rest of the chimney, landed on it's back, righted itself,
and ran, hell bent for election for the open front door, never to be seen again.

It say something about the combined evils of smoking and cat ownership that I
never smelled the CAT PEE that must have been in my fireplace for DAYS.

I surmise that the cat toppled into the chimney whilst chasing that bird.

believes that when someone hears an owl whooooing close by, a loved one will soon die.

in a tree on our hill. We've heard a lot of hoots, but none recently.

is an interesting book. That too dealt with the death of the person that heard the owl.

Some of them, anyway. I had a pair of great horned owl out my window once. Cropped me the hell out.

In Haiti.

No wait, my bad. That's only when you hit a golfball and it impales on the beak of a blackbird. You're on your own with this one.

Frankly, if you stretched the time period to three months from the moment you saw the bird to the moment someone died; and if you stretched the possible deaths from members of the family to extended families to friends and celebrities...invariably the omen was true to form.

In the toilet bowl. It was bad luck for the drowned bird that my daughter put the lid down on the toilet that night. Apparently this grackle decided to see where the vent stack on the roof led...