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This afternoon I went to the balcony and noticed that recently it was visited by a flock of birds. Or one extremely messy bird, judging by numerous white splashes on the floor. It is a memorable event by itself, because birds rarely fly at 60+ meter height where I live. Only crows in the morning and evening migrate between their feeding and sleeping locations at roughly that altitude. And swifts swarm incredibly high in the sky on summer evenings. Once I saw a titmouse on the windowsill - that's all bird sightings from my window that I can remember.
The guest left not only waste, but some kind of present, I'd like to think - a rusty screwdriver bit. That allows me to exclude a swift from list of suspects, they do not have habit of gathering inedible metal objects, while Corvidae are renowned for it.
Several hours later, when diablotm  and me were in the living-room, he said "Look who's there!' pointing at the kitchen door. I was slow, and glimpsed only a shadow of the wing, while he saw some "dark birdie" with wings spread walking out of kitchen, seeing us and leaving. It was smaller than crow, so maybe it was a jackdaw? Or even a young seagull? I hope one day to see that visitor with my own eyes.