There were three Spotted Flycatchers in Kensington Gardens today. Tom and I spent some time photographing and videoing them. This is Tom's best picture ...

... and this is mine.

I shot this video ...

... and here is Tom's.

A Starling shone in the sunlight on a chair at the Lido restaurant.

There were more at the Dell restaurant, chattering in the hawthorn tree as they waited to raid an unoccupied table for leftovers. One passed the time by picking hawthorn fruit. It dropped two before it got one.

The local Grey Heron was also waiting in the top of the tree.

On the only rowan tree on Buck Hill still to have fruit, this has been eaten right down to the lowest branches, so you can photograph the birds more or less on the level. The usual Mistle Thrushes ...

... were not disturbed by one of the Magpies that live in the trees.

Next to the bridge, a young Great Crested Grebe learned to fish by copying its parent.

The older teenagers on the Long Water can now fly.

An adult Moorhen could easily walk over the top of the little waterfall in the Dell.

But when the chicks tried to follow, look what happened.

Nothing daunted, they just climbed up again.

The gang of five Mallard teenagers are still keeping together. Here they are at Peter Pan.

A sunny autumn day brought a Willow Emerald damselfly out on to the spiked railings of the path below Buck Hill.

Autumn crocuses are out near the bridge.

Yesterday evening saw the millionth page view of this blog. It's taken nearly seven and a half years to get there.