GotH
Thanks Daniel. He was an uncle that had been dealing with cancer for awhile. It was his time to go. He's doing much better now wherever he is.I've noticed some older British folk (80 years plus) here have a real superstition and knowledge about the bird traditions where as I am a bit vague on it. Like they will salute magpies and there is a whole lot of tales they learnt as children and Laura's rhyme there. But I have heard that rhyme used for both Magpies and Crows. I am wary of superstitions which demonise living things, like what happened to Black Cats. But that's just a personal view.
I do look out for signs and messages in nature and I often see Magpies and Crows around but it doesn't seem to have any significance to me. I have heard many different variants of the Bird Death omens and I get they could be messengers but I have heard that if they fly into your house or if they fly into your window or if you are sick in bed and a bird comes pecking at the window, that is a bad sign! There is many variants of the same bad omen.
Obviously GotH, yours was definitely a message and I am sorry for your loss But I have had birds come in the house and fly into windows and nothing happened in that time frame! So I am not sure but have heard those tales and do look out for them but I am not going to do a Lucile Ball and change my wallpaper with birds printed on it
I was really hoping that the bird omen wasn't going to mean anything to me either but it did. They do seem to bring messages. Good and bad.