Bird Watching: Mixed up seasons, 1 by kennedyh

kennedyh wrote:
After a very long hot dry summer, we are getting some very strange things happening. I have seen flowers on a pear tree, and apple tree and several cherry plums and in our garden the Philadelphus is having an autumn flowering as well.
Today the birds joined in. Last spring the little Superb Fairy-wren kept displaying at his rival in our windows. Well today in late autumn he has started again. He has been repeatedly displaying at our windows today even though he is in his eclipse plumage with none of the bright blue that he wears in the summer (except for his tail which stays blue).
Here is our little confused Superb Fairy-wren: