Four Carrion Crows in the Italian Garden enjoyed a brawl. They are two parents and two young, so it wasn't a serious fight.

Magpies and crows raided ants' nests -- two separate nests, as they are not inclined to share.

A pair of crows kept Magpies off a table at the Lido restaurant while they investigated a paper bag which might have contained something edible.

Two Magpies were busy in a sweetgum tree.

I wondered whether they were eating the seeds, but a closer look at one of them shows it pecking at something else, maybe a horse chestnut seed.

The male Little Owl on Buck Hill called from a lime tree a short way up the hill from the Italian Garden. It's a tatty old tree full of holes and broken hollow branches, a good place from an owl's point of view but impossible for getting pictures though I went round it carefully with binoculars.

A Robin in the Rose Garden perched inside a bush. Its mate was in another bush just the other side of the path, and they were ticking irritably at each other because they have split up for the winter.

A male Chaffinch was in a holly tree near the bridge.

A flock of Long-Tailed Tits and Blue Tits went past the Italian Garden.

The male Mute Swan here has chased the female out -- lucky I kept the gap in the fence open for her to leave. He lunged at the resident pair of Egyptian Geese.

A Black-Headed Gull perched on the strange blue landscape of a pedalo.

Even adult Herring Gulls can't resist playing with dead leaves. Perhaps they like the colour.

A Grey Heron preened on a fallen tree in the Long Water, pointedly ignored by a Pochard.

A top view of a Shoveller from the parapet of the Italian Garden. Ducks can see things directly overhead, useful when there are predators in the air.