The white-faced Blackbird is now completely addicted to sultanas. She flew into the Italian Garden when she saw me and perched on the base of an urn to receive her treat. Then she followed me along the path and had three more helpings.

Surely they aren't bad for her. Blackbirds eat berries as part of their normal diet.

The female Little Owl was out in front of her hole, and had a bit of scratch before the arrival of a Magpie drove her in. Sorry about this rather shaky video. It needed a great deal of zoom and I didn't have a tripod, and the only way I could hold the camera anything like steady enough was to sit on the ground and brace my elbows against my knees.

A young Great Tit beside the Long Water was following its parents around, clamouring for food.

A Wren posed dramatically on an oak twig.

The four Mandarin ducklings on the Long Water are still in good order.

They are growing fast. Here is a close-up of one.

There are two chicks in the Coot nest on the post where the small electric launch is moored.

The Mute Swans who gave the Greylag Geese such a hard time were off their nest, and a Moorhen chick was standing on it, on one leg and with a king-of-the-castle attitude.

A visit to St James's Park to see the Black Swan was inconclusive. It was right on the far side of the lake, too far away to notice me, and when I crossed the lake it went round the island and disappeared. Will have to go back for this.

However, it was pleasing to see some Red Crested Pochard ducklings there, still quite a rare sight though getting commoner. In Kensington Gardens, they have only succeeded once in raising two young.

Little Grebes are much commoner in St James's Park than in our park, because the lake is stocked with small fish to feed the White Pelicans.

There was also an odd Greylag with a large white patch on its breast, and dark blue eyes.

Greylags quite often have a white patch on their forehead that makes people mistake them for White-Fronted Geese. This one was on the landing stage at the Diana fountain. It too has dark blue eyes.

Rabbits are still seldom seen in their usual place around the Henry Moore sculpture. The foxes are hitting them hard, and the usual outbreak of myxomatosis last autumn accounted for a good many. But there are usually lots of young ones at this time of year -- as many as 35 have been seen together here. Today a solitary adult was slowly munching a large leaf.