The male Little Owl, not seen for a while, turned up this morning. Here he is looking down from the nest tree ...

... and, in a picture by Tom, after he had flown into another sweet chestnut.

A Wood Pigeon flapped around clumsily in an elder tree to reach the berries.

The young Carrion Crows' voices are changing and they are beginning to sound more like adults. They are still begging, though their parents have been taking no notice for some time. But they do get the chance to snatch their parents' food, and are not punished.

The Chaffinch family were flitting around in their usual tree near the bridge. This is an adult female.

One of the young Grey Herons was right out of the nest and climbing around in  a treetop. This is the first clear view I've had of it.

A young Lesser Black-Backed Gull touched down on the Serpentine Road after evading another gull that was trying to snatch its crayfish.

The Great Crested Grebes with two chicks had a quiet moment at the west end of the island.

A gigantic hybrid goose has appeared on the Serpentine. It was with Canadas, so clearly its mother was one, and it looks as if its father was a farmyard goose, genetically a Greylag but bred for size.

If you feed the Mute Swans from a boat you get a hungry escort.

Two of the terrapins climbed up a branch opposite Peter Pan. They are getting more adventurous, and being seen in new places.

A pair of Common Darter dragonflies mated on a fallen tree.

Duncan Campbell got a good portrait of a male on a birch tree.

He also found the caterpillar of a Buff-Tip Moth.

A Speckled Wood butterfly perched on a bramble.

Neil discovered what, after some searching, he thought was a Lesser Stag Beetle. It has curious bars over its eyes to protect them from damage, like the guard on the lights of a Land-Rover. Update: Conehead 54 comments: 'The beetle isn't a Lesser Stag Beetle but I'm afraid I don't know what it is --perhaps one of the carabids.'

Further update: Neil is sure that it's a female Lesser Stag Beetle, and sent a picture from a different angle to prove his point.

Even further: on the basis of this picture Conehead 54 agrees that it is a Lesser Stag Beetle. Probably I should have chosen a flatter shot from those originally sent by Neil, but the first picture was the prettiest.

A Common Carder bee worked its way over a patch of big blue Agapanthus flowers in the Dell.