Tom has found a Little Owl family in Kensington Gardens, the first good sighting we've had for months. This is his picture of the male in a tree near the Speke obelisk ...

... and here is mine of the female near the leaf yard. There was at least one chick calling from a tree near the obelisk.

The female was being harassed by Chaffinches. Sorry about the mechanical noise -- it's the leaf siever in the leaf yard, which can be heard a mile away and has spoilt many a video.

A young Jay in a tree beside the Long Water pestered its parent to feed it. It's quite big enough to feed itself now.

A Great Spotted Woodpecker called from a tree near the bridge.

This is one of the parents of the two young Robins near the Albert Memorial.

A Great Tit stared down imperiously from a nearby twig.

Ahmet Amerikali took this picture of a young Dunnock in Southwark Park.

The Polish Black-Headed Gull with ring code T8YT, a regular visitor, is back on the Serpentine from its summer breeding ground.

The third pigeon-eating Lesser Black-Backed Gull called triumphantly beside its latest victim near the Triangle car park.

This Herring Gull has only one foot, but is having no difficulty catching and eating crayfish.

A Cormorant fishing in the fountain pools in the Italian Garden got out to dry its wings.

Another fishing in the Long Water caught a perch, and needed to turn it round to swallow head first because of the fish's spiny dorsal fin. Usually Cormorants can do this quickly and neatly, but for some reason this bird was having a hard time managing it.

The Great Crested Grebe chick from the willow near the bridge was back on the nest with a parent. It's getting quite big.

A Mallard brought five newly hatched ducklings out of the reed bed below the Italian Garden.

A pair of Mute Swans and their three cygnets enjoyed the long grass on the shore near the Serpentine island. The male parent became rather insistent on being fed.

Lastly, another picture by Tom of a Tawny Owl in Richmond Park. Although we have two pairs of Tawnies here -- one in the trees around the greenhouses, the other near the Diana memorial playground -- they are almost impossible to photograph. But we live in hope.