Another gull had found a bit of pizza, and dunked it in a puddle.
The Diana fountain was almost deserted, allowing geese and gulls in to wash and drink.
The young Grey Heron in the Dell was fishing busily. It didn't catch anything while I was there, but usually you need the patience of a heron to get a picture of it catching a fish.
On the island, a heron stood in a position to reduce its wind resistance as its nest tree swayed in the breeze.
A pair of Gadwalls dabbled at the edge of the water near Peter Pan.
Mute Swans inspected a pushchair that had fallen into the Serpentine.
It looks rather as if a small aircraft had crashed into the lake. This is not a coincidence: the original eight-wheeled folding pushchair was designed by Owen Maclaren, who had previously designed the undercarriage of the Spitfire, a tricky bit of engineering because of the aircraft's very thin wings.
The rowan tree at the north end of Buck Hill had a Redwing ...
... and a Blackbird in it eating the fruit.
A Chaffinch foraged in the Rose Garden.
The bold Nuthatch came out of the leaf yard to be fed.
The Coal Tit near the bridge was also waiting for a pine nut.
A flock of about 30 Blue Tits passed through the Dell, and there was just time to grab a hasty picture of one of them.
Underneath them, a Great Tit posed grandly in a corkscrew hazel bush, which is already putting out catkins and leaf buds.
That Great Tit would much prefer to be a bird of prey, given its attitude.
ReplyDeleteThe hovering gulls look as if they were out at sea.
The bathing Goode is so funny! I found myself saying "hup!" everytime it turned over.
Swans turn upside down too, a remarkable sight.
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