Too hard to explain the set up - briefly, i have a small holding where anything goes. I also have an enclosed garden for me. Me and the cat. And sometimes the dogs.
I also have a blackbird who has decided to adopt me. I watched him fledge and he has never left.
He pretends to be dead. No word of a lie, he lies on the ground with his head twisted at an awkward angle and his eyes open. 'Oh shit' i think, and run to get a poo bag to dispose of him in (his shroud, you understand), only to find the little fucker standing, staring me down defiantly.
He sits. I shit you not, SITS, on oldest retrievers back. For hours at a time. He follows me when i go to feed the goats.
Today, i find him inside, quite happily sitting on the dogs bed. The cat is asleep, 3 feet away from him. Briefly raised his head when i came in, cast a dirty look at blackbird and went back to sleep.
FFS, i feed the masses. I have a hoard of animals, mine, fostered and dumped on me. Now I have a bloody blackbird that the cat just wont eat (JOKE folks).
On the serious side, i cannot deal with flapping birds indoors, they seriously freak me out. Apart from keeping doors closed, I guess there is nothing else I can do?
Pic of little shit, just for entertainment value