Illegally Smol Birbs

so I’ll sometimes enter my kitchen and find pigeons / collared doves staring at me. But they just stare and stare and then fly away. No war cries.

Consider yourself lucky! The city doves that made my windows their new home/bathroom would stand their ground against both me and any other bird who dared invade their territory. I was surprised by how aggressive they became.

How did that go?

Weeeelll.....

It was interesting but a lesson was learned: doing this might seem innocent enough, and one may have good intentions. But a bird that flies into an apartment can easily find themselves in an unsafe situation. At the beginning it worked fine - the feeders hung right by the window, so blue tits would come in, take their peanut, and fly away without issue. But eventually the much bolder young starlings arrived. One of them flew into the apartment and then stood by a different window that was closed. Upon realizing that the window was closed, the starling became nervous and flew around nervously, pooping indoors and getting into a dangerous situation. Luckily they didn't get hurt, and they found an open window and flew away. But I stopped encouraging birds to get in at all.