Young Long-Tailed Tits out of the nest

The young Long-Tailed Tits from the nest in the gorse bush on Buck Hill are now out and flying around begging their parents to feed them. Here are two of them.

This is the Great Tit nest in an iron bollard beside Rotten Row that Mike Harris told me about yesterday. A parent emerged from feeding the chicks.

A Wren on Buck Hill was also feeding a family. It came back with a spider but found a Magpie near the nest. It darted around from tree to tree to hide the location, chattering furiously.

One of the Blackbirds in the Dell was collecting worms for chicks.

The Mistle Thrush near the Round Pond tried for an insect but only got a tuft of grass.

A Starling looked out from a nest hole in an oak tree.

A good picture from yesterday by Ahmet Amerikali: a Reed Warbler beside the Serpentine.

The Grey Wagtail in the Italian Garden was catching insects with remarkable speed. I looked at the time stamp on my pictures, and between the moment of its arrival at the fountains and the haul shown here was just one minute.

Both the Pied Wagtails were here too.

A closer look at one of them.

The Coot chicks in the pool are now able to feed themselves.

The single Great Crested Grebe chick is growing fast.

The two Canada Goose families were together at the Triangle car park. They chased off a Mallard with ducklings.

Three goslings browsed on weeds at the edge of a shrubbery under the watchful eye of their mother.

A family of Greylags threaded their way carefully through a group of Mute Swans, which are liable to attack them.

The Mallard ducklings pecked at a piece of floating wood. There may have been some edible algae on it, but hardly enough to bother with -- maybe they were just playing.