Any idea how this could have gotten on my windshield?

Sure a couple cranberries didn’t hit your windshield?

No residual carcass of bugs or berries.

Also, should I be concerned about flying cranberries?

A hawk flied over your car carrying a bleeding rodent?

The crows that live in your neighborhood set this up to kerflummox you. Right now they’re enjoying this thread.

Two exploded satiated mosquitoes?

There are some shrubs around here that produce red berries in their season. At that time of year, birds are apt to eat them and leave some red bird splats on my car. The splats don’t look like berry residue. They look like bird residue. Might this be a clue?

Flying squirrel had a nose bleed.

I’ll have to check but I don’t think any mammals, other than humans, menstruate and certainly not flying mammals, like bats.

@notnotnotnot & @rebbel may be on to something.

Bible. Plague #1 Water into blood. Exodus 7:14

Menstruation beyond primates, is known only in bats and the elephant shrew. Females of other species of placental mammal undergo oestrous cycles, in which the endometrium is completely reabsorbed by the animal (covert menstruation) at the end of its reproductive cycle.

What did the deposit taste like?

How would you describe the splatter pattern?

What cultural dna is growing in the petri dish?

Any concomitant car duco damage?

Does insurance cover it?

Good news is the deposit doesn’t sound like the elephant shrew.

Insect diver bombers.

@notnotnotnot Possibly the most likely suggestion so far? I have seen hawks in the area.

@canidmajor Not sure if they have orchestrated this or not. But they are probably laughing at me one way or another. Silly human.

@rebbel and @ZEPHYRA No bug carcasses!

@Jeruba It was much more viscous than what I imagine berry juice would look like.

@chyna LOL From flying into each other? I’ve never seen one around here. But they are nocturnal…

@elbanditoroso Just two drops? That seems pretty anticlimactic for the Bible. Though I guess parting the sea or flooding the world is a hard act to follow.

@Pinguidchance I am sad to report that I did not follow through with due diligence to actually taste the mystery substance on my windshield.

I legitimately regret not transferring some to a petri dish.

It looked kind of like two drops from a bloody nose. Or maybe that’s just the power of suggestion after reading chyna’s response?

No damage to the car.

Possible that a bird of prey killed a small animal or bird, took it to a tree branch above your car and some blood dripped on your car.

Poor avian creature with a leaky anus?

That avian needs to see a doctor then!

Blood rain isn’t so unusual. One explanation for it is red dust getting mixed up with rain.

Charles Fort discussed various strange things that have fallen from the skies in his Book of the Damned first published 1919.

It has rained frogs and fish before.

@kritiper That actually makes more sense. The two droplets would have had a longer trail if it had dripped from something that was flying. The two droplets looked more like they had just fallen straight down.

@ARE_you_kidding_me I guess there’s more than one orfice that it could have come from.

@Dutchess_III Agreed!

@flutherother Wow! That’s really interesting! Though it had a much thicker viscosity than the images of blood rain that I just googled. Blood rain actually looks watery like regular rain.

Well, I a meteor hit my windshield once. It came straight down.

@Dutchess_III Do you have pictures of the meteorite? (They’re worth their weight in gold!)

Oh, no! It was very tiny. It hard, but didn’t even nick the windshield. No way could I have found it in the street.

How do you know it was a meteorite? It could have been a BB from some kid’s gun that he shot up into the air while bird hunting, or a small rock thrown off a passing truck’s tire.

Well, I don’t really know, of course. The thing is I was on a residential road that was other wise deserted. No traffic and no one was doing yard work, like with a trimmer or a mower, that might throw something. When it hit I instantly searched for a cause, because that’s what I do. I didn’t see anyone, no kids, nothing at all to account for it.
The other things was it came straight down. It didn’t come at any kind of angle like it would if it had been thrown.
“NASA says”:“https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/overview/fastfacts.html Every day, Earth is bombarded with more than 100 tons of dust and sand-sized particles.”
So it was a tiny meteor, that’s my story and I’m sticking with it! ;)