It was a frosty day and the Long Water was partly frozen. Black-Headed Gulls perched on the ice, ignoring the chill because they have clever heat exchangers in the circulation to their legs.

Another gull found a large piece of bread, and struggled to swallow it.

A young Herring Gull saw a large bit of branch dropped by a dog and came over to see if it had anything edible or could be played with. It scratched its chin thoughtfully, then swam away.

A Great Crested Grebe dozed peacefully at the island.

A Moorhen perched on the collapsed willow tree at the bridge ...

... and a young Mute Swan mooched underneath.

On the grassy bank at the back of the Lido, swans cropped the grass and a Lesser Black-Backed Gull and a Magpie looked for worms.

At Peter Pan. a Tufted drake got a bit too close to a Mute Swan and had to retreat to avoid being pecked.

The Red-Crested Pochard and his two Mallard companions were in the Italian Garden.

Goldfinches were back on the teasels in the Rose Garden, and today I was able to get close enough for a better picture.

The Kingfisher was on the Long Water, but in an awkwardly distant place diagonally across the lake from Peter Pan.

I hope to get a closer video before it leaves.

Neil filmed a Coal Tit coming to his hand again and again in a flowering wintersweet bush near the Albert Memorial. There was also one visit from a Great Tit.

Here are his pictures of both of them on the same bush.

A Robin stood on a fallen branch in the woodland at the foot of Buck Hill.

A pair of Carrion Crows perched amicably on the weeping beech in the Dell.