Strange thing is, people are saying how loud the birds are.
They are probably 6-8dB quieter because they have less plane and traffic noise to compete with.
But humans don't have to try and listen to the birds against the background noise now, so they seem louder to us...
Training up some robins- they now come just into the kitchen to look for us.
We're not expecting them to be as good as a pair some years ago, which were obviously the ones that migrate to and from Germany every year,
and are way pushier than the ones that stay put. Those ones would sit on your hand while you actually poked a mealworm into their mouths...
If the food ran out, they would fly round the house looking for us.
Here's a pic of the blackbird last year. Asking my wife for more worms.
In the bloody kitchen.
Only when really close can you see that a male blackbird's feet are AMAZING.