Hard choices, QNS. Sorry you have to make them. Garden is not what I expected here, either.
I've been saving our shower water and carrying it out the front door to water plants. Fortunately not a long haul. Using some of it to clean off the baby bird poop from the swallow's nest on the the porch. Hated to knock the nest down when there were baby birds in it, but they will soon fledge , then will knock it down and I'll still have some "bug catchers". Kind of like your robins, QE.