Welcome home - now let us out!

This is what greets me most nights when I get home. They hear the car and get very excited and when they see me, they nearly squash each other through the holes in the door, Tom & Jerry style.

As soon as I let them out they sprint across the garden to get the best seeds dropped off the bird feeder.

After that excitement, they switch into 'mooch and roam' mode, browsing through the garden like a vast fast food counter, pecking and scratching.