A pair of Whinchats perched on a scrubby plant on Buck Hill. They were the first Whinchats I've seen in the park, though they are already in the long-term list in the right column.

The female Kestrel perched in several trees around the edge of the hill to plunge down into the long grass after her prey.

She was persistently harrassed by a Magpie ...

... but there was time to have a scratch ...

... and catch a mouse.

She also crossed the Long Water and posed beautifully in a chestnut tree near the Italian Garden.

There were Mistle Thrushes in the rowan trees on Buck Hill ...

... and a Jay, which abandoned looking for fruit to beg for a peanut.

A young Wren perched on a bramble at the bottom of the hill.

There was a young Blackbird in the yew tree near the bridge, which must have hatched later than the others as it is still very juvenile in appearance.

A Treecreeper climbed an oak tree in the leaf yard.

The usual Rose-Ringed Parakeets were here to be fed by a crowd of weekend visitors. Some were on the ground looking for dandelion leaves, one of their favourite foods. There was competition for the few leaves left. One parakeet pulled another's tail to shoo it away.

A Wood Pigeon ate berries in a cotoneaster bush beside the Serpentine. They were a bit withered by the drought, but Wood Pigeons aren't fussy. Eventually she reached too far and fell down.

The second young Grey Heron has finally come down from the nest, and was looking for food along the shore of the island. The two siblings used to look exactly alike, but during its extra time in the nest this one's neck has got dark and dishevelled.

One of the Great Crested Grebe chicks from the west end of the island pestered its father, who pretended to be asleep.

A young Coot at Peter Pan pecked bark off a twig, perhaps to see if there were insects underneath.