As the geese return to the Serpentine, there are two new young Greylags, not hatched here but having flown in as soon as they were able to. Here one of them takes a hard line with some pigeons.

The three Greylag goslings hatched in the park have also reappeared from wherever they were; they probably took refuge on the island. The young birds are now quite well grown. They have not been deterred by all the disturbance, and happily wandered around my feet and ate pieces of digestive biscuit.

The first Great Crested Grebe family from the island were on the south side of the lake, alternately all fishing together and catching food for their young. Here one of the chicks struggles to swallow a rather large fish. It managed in the end.

Roy Sanderson was in the park today with his wife and two grandchildren, whom he had brought to enjoy feeding the small birds in the leaf yard. The birds have plenty to eat at the moment and are not all that eager to be fed, but we attracted a fair number of Great Tits, a few Blue Tits, a couple of Coal Tits, a Chaffinch and two Robins. No Ring-Necked Parakeets showed up, but the Little Owl was calling persistently from the trees, invisible as usual.

Soon afterwards I met a female Blackbird who is one of my regular customers, taking large pieces of cheese to feed her offspring in the bushes.

There are not many Blue Tits in the leaf yard, as their young are grown up and they are now flying around the park in large flocks, sometimes with Long-Tailed Tits. Coming home, I saw at least twenty Blue Tits rushing between the trees in the Flower Walk.