So I'm sitting in my room and my dad is in the room next to mine at 7:30 at night. So I'm chatting with people and I heard this loud 'THUMP' noise that actually shook my house. The floors vibrated! Well, me and my dad thought we found the culprit seeing as my cat had just jumped off of our rocking chair. My dad tried to imitate it while I was in my room(we were sort of pretending we were detectives) and it was at that point we realized, it wasn't the cat. So, my dad and I were quite perplexed as to the cause of this commotion. My dad proceeded to check my basement while I looked out the windows. I looked out and saw 4-5 cats huddled around. If that wasn't strange enough, there was a feathered animal, but much to large to be a bird. So, I said "Dad...I think a pheasant or something hit our house. All the cats are surrounding it." to which he replied "You're sh*tting me!". We went outside and sure enough, my cats were feasting upon the feathered delacasy that had pummeled my house hard enough to not only shake the floors, but kill itself in the process. He didn't even hit any windows! That was a sudden stop against hard wood and siding. If I can't make this any clearer: My house is two floors, the bottom being brick and the top being hard wood and siding, also it's much larger than an average house. Now how the hell does a 2^1/2 pound bird hit a house of that size and stability and shake it?