It was a windy morning.

Even the skilled pilot of the flying ambulance found the air over Buck Hill a bit bumpy.

The birds visiting the rowan tree are completely used to this noisy red bird landing next to them, and carry on feeding. Today's visitors included two Mistle Thrushes ...

... and half a dozen Blackbirds.

The resident Magpie couple were in the same tree.

The ability of Magpies to seize food is amazing. I didn't feed this one on Buck Hill, and it can only have stolen the peanut from a Carrion Crow.

You put down a peanut for a Jay to take, and while the bird is still thinking about flying down a Magpie shoots in from the side and grabs it.

Squirrels have brought down the feeder in the Rose Garden for the second time. They can't get into it, so they jump up and down on the cage until it comes unhooked and falls to the ground, where they can roll it around to make the bird seed fall out. While I was reassembling everything and bending the hook to make it more secure, the local Blackbird came out quite confidently for a sultana.

A flock of Long-Tailed Tits explored the trees in the Dell.

A Great Crested Grebe caught a fish.

A Moorhen rummaged in the fallen leaves at the edge of the Serpentine.

Mute Swans find it slightly awkward swimming through the carpet of leaves on the water.

The Black Swan came to the Vista to be fed while the dominant male Mute Swan was off chasing some other swans.

The weather brightened up in the afternoon, and the low sunlight caught a swan on the Round Pond ...

... and the white Mallard drake, who was near the Lido with his mate and the spare drake who is a part of the trio.