Mixed up seasons

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:

This is what he looks like in the summer:

and here is his lady wife, with a reddish bill and none of the blue colour, except for a hint of it in the tail:

Any rain with the autumn? That can set off an extra 'spring' after a hot dry summer.

Resin

We also had a welcome visitor this morning. The Ground Thrush, Scaly Thrush or Bassian Thrush (Zoothera lunulata) is only an occasional visitor to our garden and today's was the first for almost a year, but this one was feeding on our front lawn and allowed me my first real close picture of a Ground Thrush:

Yes we have had some rain, but nowhere near what we need to break the drought. In fact it rained last night, although today has been bright and sunny. They have forecast rain every day for the next week, but their promises seem to come to very little this year.

Great pics kennedy!! Just saw this the Fairy Wren in his beautiful summer colors on the Attenenborough CD" The Life of Birds". Their really gorgeous!
Thanks for posting these! Hope you get more rain soon/

What a beautiful little bird - thanks!