A heating engineer is a veritable Dr. Dolittle, receiving daily visits from a little starling he simply calls 'Birdie'.

Bruce, based in London, rolls down his window while he takes lunch, parked up by a local supermarket.

The starling "waits patiently" on the wing mirror, he says, "waiting to be hand-fed ready salted crisps."

"I’m also making friends with a rare albino squirrel ... give it a month," he adds.