A small party of Swifts flew over the Serpentine, the first I've seen here this year.

A male Blackcap sang near the leaf yard ...

... with his mate in the next bush. She was carrying a midge, so they seem to have a nest here.

A Greenfinch sang from a tree beside the Long Water.

A Pied Wagtail ran around in in the Diana fountain enclosure. Daisies are as big to them as sunflowers are to us.

Neil filmed himself hand feeding Carrion Crows with bits of cheese. The slowed-down soundtrack turns their voices into dreadful dinosaur growls.

He also got some more pictures of the Cetti's Warbler near the bridge, hastily shot because this shy bird only appears for an instant.

A Grey Heron landed in the fallen poplar on the Long Water.

A Great Crested Grebe caught small insects on the surface of the water.

The two broods of eight Egyptian goslings are still in good shape. The younger one is shown first, being harassed by a Canada Goose. The older set came into the edge in a dangerously open formation, but luckily the Herring Gulls were busy elsewhere.

The Black Swan on the Serpentine preened her surprising white flight feathers. Most birds have dark flight feathers because the melanin pigment strengthens them, but Black Swans have decided to go the other way.

The Mandarins have disappeared from the Long Water, possibly after unsuccessful attempts at breeding. The two drakes were on the Round Pond, and one of the females was on the Serpentine.

There are still several pairs of Gadwalls on the lake.

This Tufted Duck with a white forehead is often mistaken for a Scaup, but white patches are fairly common in the species.

A Holly Blue butterfly appeared on a holly tree near the bridge, the first I've found this year.

Neil photographed a bumblebee on a berberis flower. I think it's a Buff-Tailed Bumblebee looking odd because you can only see the ends of its two orange stripes.