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>>/7122/ > 20240827 Yeah, I already thought I had seen this one before. Dunno which species that is. Identifying birds is tiresome. Glad they're not here though, we have lots of blackbirds and crows and they all get along. I heard another hoopoe, they make a weird 90s phone ringtone sound. Went out to look for it but couldn't find the hoopoe. Too bad, they look cool. Heard severals cuckoos as well but you almost never see them. Very elusive bird. >>/7123/ Is the first one a dahlia? We never had luck with those and I don't really like them. Second is California poppy (Eschscholzia californica) Third is some Clematis hybrid. All of those would flower months later here. Is your grape actually dormant in winter? Ours are at roughly the same stage now with inflorescences visible. I'd thought in California they're evergreen. It's still April but spring has ended here. The flowers are gone, it's all uniform green. Nights are still cold but with day-time temperatures around 25°C it feels like summer. One of the few trees still in flower is the Horse Chestnut, an ornamental tree from the Balkans. I like them a lot, it's such a majestic tree with large pretty flowers. Very delicate though and plagued by many diseases.