Here, and probably somewhere else, I posted about what happened when my mother in law died.
Within a day or two of her being dead, this pigeon appeared on our living room window, and glared in at us, for hours on end. We couldn't scare it or shoo it away. I'm not a fan of pigeons in fact they creep the hell out of me, always did, even before this. After 3 days of stalking us, we never saw it again. It sat there almost the entire day, each of the three days - not just for a few minutes, or an hour - but hours. Facing in to the house, staring at us.
This morning, we had a phone call to say my father in law died yesterday. (In his 90s. He had dementia and was really awful to my husband, who is a kind soul. Cut him out of his will because husband couldn't afford the petrol to go visit him - or the time, as we had a lot of young kids and were living on minimum wage - so no condolences needed).
Tonight, I went to the bog and couldn't be bothered to turn on the light. Slowly dawned on me that there was the outline of a pompom sat on the window handle, window slightly open. Realised it was a baby bird and less than a metre from me. Ran out of the loo, shutting door so it couldn't get into the rest of the house... Sent husband up. He couldn't shoo or scare it away and it was essentially in the bathroom, this time, not outside a window.
Now fledgelings are everywhere this time of year. But never had one there. He turned light on unlike me, so saw it and said it looked like a baby sparrow. He said when he spoke to it, it was asleep - open its eyes, looked at him, then shut them again.
I made him go back up after an hour or so and he said it still there, so he sort of draped the net curtain over the top half of the window so at least it couldn't get right into the bathroom. I came upstairs just now and luckily it's gone - even though it looked to be roosting.
Lived here over 20 years, and usually have birds nesting under the eaves and usually have my windows open all summer - but this is the first time that happened. (No nests this year anyway as house was just re-roofed and they knocked off all the house martin nests - birds haven't rebuilt). Hope it doesn't return tomorrow or the day after.
ETA: Yes, robins are just waiting for you to turn over the soil for a worm. We have the classic on a spade handle, daily, this time of year. Saw a robin fledgling last week. The parent was watching it from a few metres away. They will come up within a metre or so of us, but other birds don't. I followed a basketmaker's YouTube channel and he filmed himself in his workshop in his garden, feeding a robin out of his hand, every day. So you can get them quite tame. They are territorial and quite violent little birds, not at all as we sentimentalise them. The other trope for dead loved ones is a white feather. Last time I saw a little shower of ghostly looking down feathers raining down from the sky, realised a hawk had just offed a pigeon on a telephone wire, right above my head...