The Moorhens at the Serpentine bridge still have five of their original six chicks. They have done much better than the Coots from the nest in the same place, who have lost all the chicks from two broods.

The Black Swan was nearby, on his own. The Mute Swan who is the mother of the four cygnets had taken them up the lake. She has not been attacking him when he hangs around her family, but she may consider him a bad influence.

Some swans flew to the other end of the lake and descended elegantly on the water.

One of the young Greylag Geese sprawled on the shore, preening its wing.

A Cormorant caught several carp in front of the place where the fishermen usually sit, catching nothing.

A Great Crested Grebe was pursued by a chick under the Serpentine bridge. The other parent is sitting on a new clutch of eggs on the far side of the bridge.

A Starling was foraging up the shore, looking very fine in the sunshine.

The female Little Owl at the leaf yard was in the same place as yesterday. She seems to have abandoned what used to be her usual branch, perhaps not surprisingly as there were a lot of Magpies around.

A family of Long-Tailed Tits passed through the trees near the Albert Memorial.

In the Rose Garden, a Great Tit, a Coal Tit and a juvenile Robin took turns at a feeder while a Dunnock on the ground underneath picked up the spillage. This feeder is not operated by the park. A kind woman set it up and fills it regularly.

A Honeybee and a Comma butterfly enjoyed the flowers and the sunshine.

An Emperor dragonfly was hunting at the east end of the Serpentine.

A mess of ripped-off oak leaves and acorns on the path near the Henry Moore statue showed that the squirrels were eating young acorns in their usual destructive manner.

Both Grey Squirrels and Rose-Ringed Parakeets seem unable to feed in a tree without vandalising it.