I love how my balcony has turned into an all-you-can-eat buffet. The bees love my lavender, some flies seem to enjoy the stonecrop flowers and the occasional bumblebee dives head first into my bellflowers. Then there is a whole life and death cycle of ants, aphids and ladybugs happening on my catnip plant. And some little crawlies pollinate my strawberries and blackberries, so I too profit from it.
The bird population is strange this year. Already found 2 dead on the balcony and 1 in front of the house.
Seems like the do fly against the wall \ windows. Not sure what the root cause of that is.
Might be that more birds are living nearby this summer making such events more likely.