Interesting thing happened today. Got the mail and started into the house and realized there was a bird on the porch handrail - just standing there. I walked over to check, and the eyes blinked, and I could see it breathing, but it let me walk right up and talk. Didn't have any bird feed, so I took a small cracker out and broke it up and put it right in front of the bird. Then I thought water maybe and put a drop of simple syrup and water in a shallow container and put that on the railing, too. The bird stayed right there. When I checked a little later, it was on one of the chairs acting more lively. Last time I looked it was gone. I've never seen a wild bird just let someone walk up and talk to it before.