There was an unusual visitor to the Serpentine island, a young Shelduck. It may have come from Regent's Park, where they have Shelducks both in their captive collection and as occasional wild visitors.

The eldest Canada gosling is almost a teenager now and is losing its juvenile down and growing its first proper feathers. As a result, it is looking a bit unkempt.

People were throwing bread to the ducks at Peter Pan, attracting a Grey Heron which expertly caught a piece in midair.

The male of the pair of Great Crested Grebes nesting inside the reed rafts at the east end of the Serpentine was fishing in the murky and weedy water. There are a lot of small fish sheltering under the weed, but there is no sheltering from a hungry grebe.

One of the family of Wrens in the Flower Walk was perched in a tree, scolding some creature I couldn't see, probably a Magpie.

A family of Long-Tailed Tits passed through the leaf yard on its all-day insect hunting expedition.

There were a lot of dragonflies similarly engaged on the shore of the Serpentine. Here is a female Black-Tailed Skimmer taking a brief rest on the granite kerb.

The male Little Owl was in exactly the same place as yesterday and the day before. It is not as conveniently visible as the perch he favoured last year.