I walk to the park during slow hours, sit on a bench, wait for a bunch of sparrows to come, and then I give them some sunflower seeds. Sometimes -but not often- a magpie will approach too. You have to be quiet for birds to come near and fairly calm for them to approach you at all. Others can only be spotted from a distance. Wagtails are quite timid but can be seen running around sometimes, and the blackbirds can be h…
This sounds lovely! This definitely sounds like the kind of thing that would really work well to let all the stresses of the everyday wash off!
It reminds me a lot of the YouTube channel "life in jars", he normally makes videos about microbiology and freshwater ecology in... jars!
But on top of that he also had a short series on gaining the trust of and befriending crows in his city.
Good incentive for me to try this out!