Virginia and I went to the Meadow to look for the young Sparrowhawks. The first thing we saw was the female Kestrel, which flew over and perched in a lime tree.

The Sparrowhawks were only visible for moments at first , but suddenly one flew low overhead and Virginia got this splendid photograph of it.

There was no sign of the Little Owls in the morning. I went back in the afternoon when the weather was turning nasty and heard the female calling, without which I wouldn't have found her.

A Wren came out on a bramble near the leaf yard to scold a Carrion Crow in the tree overhead.

I also saw another Wren carrying an insect, so there is still an active nest here.

A Wood Pigeon couldn't decide whether to go for the elderberries behind it or the blackberries in front.

The bold bronze Feral Pigeon at Peter Pan sunbathed dangerously in the middle of the path.

The pigeon-eating Herring Gull -- one of four pigeon killers that we now have on the lake -- nearly lost its kill to a bold Carrion Crow but managed to grab it back.

The Mute cygnet that was abandoned on the Serpentine has been trying for some time to join the family with four cygnets on the Long Water, and it looks as if it's beginning to be accepted.

The father of the family attacked a dog that its stupid owner had allowed to go into the water at the Vista. This looks like the dog that I filmed getting beaten up by the same swan on 8 July. Some people never learn.

The swan in the Italian Garden was in exactly the same place on the kerb of the pool as when I photographed it on Saturday.

Virginia reports that the blond male Egyptian Goose who was thrown out of his family by an interloper is now back with his mate. I couldn't find him, but here is one of his two blond teenagers in the middle of preening its wings.

A young Moorhen foraged along the edge of the Serpentine.

A Brimstone butterfly perched on a thistle.

A Common Wasp chewed off little flakes of wood from the dragonfly sculpture in the Meadow, before bringing its harvest back to the colony's nest site to build up the big papier mâché nest.

A little ichneumonid wasp worked over a marigold, accompanied by a smaller insect. It looks as if the wasp has a yellow stripe on the side of its thorax, though it's hard to see against the yellow flower and none of my other pictures showed it any better. If so, it might be a male Lissonota lineolaris.