We had (at least) a pair of Easter Phoebes around the house for a few weeks...you couldn't look out the window without seeing a phoebe zooming around, usually with a bug or nesting material or something in its mouth. We were loving them!

This morning Bob commented that he hadn't seen one today, which was odd. I had seen a hawk earlier and guessed they were hiding. A little while ago he found two phoebes, deceased, out by the garage doors.
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We don't know what happened. Did they bump into the garage door window? BOTH of them?? Were they poisoned? Did they eat a bug that had eaten some kind of poison?

I'm trying not to overreact to this, but I could easily sit down and sob.