A new Egyptian brood

A Blue Tit sang in the Rose Garden.

A Magpie sunbathed in the grass beside the Henry Moore sculpture.

Two Pied Wagtails on the edge of the Serpentine were collecting insects for nestlings. (There were three on the south shore of the lake.)

Seeing a Coot poking around the edge of a planter in the Italian Garden fountains ...

... I went over and managed to get a rather obstructed view of three chicks on a nest in the irises.

The single surviving chick on the Long Water was at Peter Pan.

A Great Crested Grebe probed around the edge of a Coot nest near the Serpentine outflow.

It caught a fish that had been lurking among the twigs.

The new reeds are beginning to come up in the recently made reed bed on the Long Water, as you can see on the left of this picture. The larger clump in which the Moorhen is standing must have been transplanted from an existing reed bed. 

A Mute Swan ...

... and a Greylag Goose enjoyed a splashy wash on the Serpentine

There is a new brood of seven Egyptian goslings on the scrubby ground beside the Serpentine outflow.

The existing family still has seven. There aren't many Herring Gulls at the moment, and with luck some of them should make it.

A Mexican Orange bush in the Rose Garden is full of insects, including a Honeybee ...

... and an unusually dark Batman Hoverfly. You can hardly see the Batman logo marking on the upper part of its thorax, and if it looks like anything it's more like the supposed black skull mark that gave the insect its earlier name of Death's Head Hoverfly.

I think these Speckled Wood butterflies chasing each other are courting, though it might be a fight between rival males.

An iris has somehow planted itself under one of the Italian Garden fountains. It's battered by the full force of the falling water but remains alive and growing.