A Robin stood guard in the gateway of the Rose Garden.

The teenage Blackbird was back on the wood chippings under the huge Caucasian Elm. I'm trying to make friends with it by giving it raisins, but it takes some time for a Blackbird to realise that you're throwing things to it rather than at it. Once they get the idea they become fearless and fly out whenever they see you.

A female Chaffinch foraged under the bushes near the bridge.

Grey Herons like having a high vantage point, but it seems odd that this one on the Long Water has chosen an uncomfortable perch when it could stand lower and be able to fish from there.

There aren't usually any Coots in the Dell, but today a pair turned up and evicted the resident Moorhens from the rock where they like to rest.

The female Mandarin was following its Egyptian friend on the grass beside the Serpentine.

Another Egyptian had a vigorous wash ...

... and a Greylag Goose finished its bath with a flap.

Of the three dark Mallard brothers on the Serpentine, only one has a mate. The other two always go around together.

A Red Admiral butterfly drank nectar from a clump of plumbago in the Rose Garden.

Above it, a Buff-Tailed Bumblebee visited the flowers of an arbutus.

A Honeybee had a narrow escape when it touched the sticky web of a Garden Spider, but it was able to shake itself free.

The spider was higher up the web eating a fly.

On a sunny afternoon the flowering ivy at the back of the Lido was crowded with insects -- mostly Common Wasps, but there were two Tapered Drone Flies and a Greenbottle.

There was also a Harlequin Ladybird.