More Cormorants are arriving on the lake; there were 18 today. This is because the year's young fish have reached a size large enough to be interesting to Cormorants. Word gets around the community very quickly and they fly up from the river. This one on the Long Water had stopped gorging itself for a moment to play with a fallen leaf.

The young Grey Wagtail has a new favourite place, beside the water under the bushes between the Lido swimming area and the Lido restaurant, where it can't be disturbed by people. But it can be photographed from the jetty of the swimming area. Here it has caught a tiny pale worm.

On the land side of these bushes, in a small olive tree, the local Robin was singing with great enthusiasm.

A young Hobby was in almost the same place as yesterday, in a plane tree south of the Physical Energy statue. It didn't stay long, and flew off towards Hyde Park to rejoin the family.

Today it was the male Little Owl who came out for a photograph. As usual, this was in the chestnut tree just to the west of the pair's nest tree.

A Moorhen was having a good stretch on the abandoned Coots' nest at Peter Pan. It only had a moment of enjoyment, as one of the Coots arrived and pushed it off. The Coot doesn't actually want the nest, it just doesn't want anyone else to have it. Shortly afterwards it evicted two Mallards.

Melissa the Carrion Crow is almost recovered from her leg injury, though still limping slightly. She flew on to the parapet of the Italian Garden graciously accepted a digestive biscuit.