By chance Spotify plays Blackbird by Tash Sultana as I read this thread.
The real life Blackbirds in and around the garden have had what I think is a couple of broods this year. Raised just in time when the garden was full of bounty.
However there is a large fat grey cat that sometimes hops over the gate.
The blackbirds then sit on a roof making the noise that only blackbirds make when alarmed as they monitor the beast.
The same sort of thing happens when a buzzard is overhead but it’s then mobbed by the rooks. If the birdsong stops completely I know there is a smaller predator like a sparrowhawk very close by.
Swapping arms is essential in the watering game and life in general or else as you suggest the danger is you become unbalanced.
Music helps too.
Nick
Vale of the Great Dairies
South Dorset
Elevation 60m 197ft