I believe this tiny grey fluffball with the black cap was one of the birds harrassing the Eurasian Jay who was visiting yesterday, but I have no idea what sort of bird it might be. This is more a record shot than good photography, but it’s the only photo I could get of it. Perhaps a juvenile Marsh Tit? [Update: identified by Mandy Allen over on Google+ as a female Eurasian Black Cap, a.k.a. Mönchsgrasmücke! That’s a new one we’ve never seen before here – or maybe it was just hiding!]

Another of the purple Rhododendrons. I need some colour
here, it’s terribly grey and it has been raining the whole day…

The Oxeye Daisies are back! Well, it’s actually not the same plant from last year, which
didn’t survive the winter, but we just couldn’t resist getting some new ones :-).

Just an ordinary street scene from a couple of days ago, but the clouds looked perfect for a black-and-white treatment. This is Mülheim’s Dickswall seen from the left pedestrian bridge looking east..

Well, I said that they were coming, and here they are :-).

Sometimes the Anemone look quite orderly in the middle, but not this one :-).

The second of the three hot air balloons which flew over our city yesterday – I liked this one most :-).

We saw this Eurasian Jay yesterday picking around in the ivy across our balconies – one of them comes visiting every spring for a short time. We were not sure if it was trying to raid a nest or something, but it was loudly harrassed by a lot of other unseen birds, who were making loud clicking noises! After a while it flew off, obviously annoyed – this is the best photo I was able to take.

The Rhododendrons are coming :-).

Back to the great and irresistible Anemones :-).