The view from our 4th floor living room window takes some beating. Look left and we can gaze across the broad sweep of the North Shore of Llandudno towards the Little Orme, and if we set up the scope at the right angle, even do a spot of sea-watching from the sofa. Straight ahead and we look over the rooftops of the town itself. Look to the right, and we look out past Deganwy Castle across the Conwy estuary to Conwy Mountain. But right slap bang in the middle of our view is a TV aerial, not exactly a thing of beauty, as it rises up from the rooftop of the little cottage below us. When it blew down in the recent gales we hoped it had gone forever, but it wasn’t long before a team of roofers had it fixed again.But we’ve begun to realise we’ve been looking at it all wrong. The people in the house below it may think it’s their TV aerial, but in fact it is a bird stopping off point. It serves as a brief resting point for so many birds that we’re even thinking of keeping an ‘aerial list’. The birds arrive in ones: a chunky Herring Gull tests the robustness of the aerial; in spring, a noisy Coal Tit proclaimed its territory from it; a Greenfinch wheezes its call from it; a silver-eyed Jackdaw perches on it to pick apart a tasty morsel it has scavenged elsewhere, and even flew over to the windowsill to peer in at us, quite a shock to see a face looking in our windor four storeys up. They also arrive in pairs: two Collared Doves regularly cuddle up on it, tenderly preening one another; two Dunnocks have briefly called in on their way to our feeder packed with sunflower hearts in the yard below. But the record lies at six: a family party of six Goldfinches have lined up in a row, fidgeting and preening, nudging and joshing each other like a gang of naughty school children; twittering and chirruping and filling our living room with their glorious song. Don’t know what it did for the TV reception down below, but they quite stole the show up at our levelWe can’t offer the birds much in our little urban garden. The small yard below our tall building is usually full of washing drying on a line, but somehow the local species have found our feeder tucked into a tree in the corner. But we do offer a prime high-rise resting point, for surveying the scene, defending a territory, confirming a pair bond or having a family gathering. So we’ve quite changed our opinion about the aerial blocking our view of the landscape – long may it stay as a bird post!