Love to watch and hear them. They day birds don’t have memories.....funny when they show up here they always fly to the spot where the feeder hangs when I have it up.
Birds are mysterious - we still don’t really know for sure how homing pigeons ‘work’, for instance.
There have been many anecdotal stories where birds not only returned to the same yard, but to the same bush or tree to nest, year after year; and I think it’s been shown in some controlled studies.
This is an interesting book suggesting that birds not only have memory, but ‘traditions’:
-JT
Years ago I had feeders hanging on the front porch, now they are in the yard. I’ve had three come through buzzing the front porch where they used to be.