Used to work in Linz Austria, as a Hausmeister (24 years ago) and prior to 'Mowing the Lawns' one morning I stopped to see what else needed doing and about 25 foot away was a Hoopoe sitting on a branch of a Oeleander. Cute, but for some reason I had imagined the bird to be larger than it was in reality. The exotic seems greater perhaps.
I got a very shaky shot from a hastily retrieved camera.
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