Little Owl family

The Little Owls near the Round Pond are a pair, and have two owlets. This is the male in a horse chestnut tree.

The female, whom I photographed yesterday, was looking down from the top of a lime tree.

The owlets were in different horse chestnuts and weren't cooperative about being photographed. All I managed today was a back view of one of them, but with luck there will be other opportunities.

A young Robin in the Flower Walk was just beginning to grow his red breast.

A Wren sang from another bush ...

... and the young Great Tits were demanding to be fed.

Neil sent a good picture of a Dunnock near the bridge.

Yet another pigeon-killing Lesser Black-Backed Gull has appeared on the scene, and was eating a victim in the Italian Garden under the shocked eyes of visitors.

This is definitely not the original gull, which I saw later in his usual place on the Serpentine. Note the distinctive deep yellow colour of his legs. It seems strange that the original gull had so few others copying him for so many years, and now half a dozen are at it.

On a hot day a Coot enjoyed a splash in the Serpentine.

The four Coot chicks at Peter Pan are still in good order. A parent added some laurel leaves to the nest.

(But the laurel wreaths the Romans wore to congratulate themselves were not made of these large leaves, which are from a cherry laurel. They used bay leaves.)

A young female Mute Swan on the Serpentine was bloodstained, though it didn't seem to be seriously injured. Maybe she had got too close to the madly aggressive male at the Lido defending his four cygnets.

Blondie has been moulting and was already regrowing her wing feathers.

The two smaller Egyptian goslings at the Vista were swimming together ...

... while the large adopted one was on the grass with its step-parents.

A Mandarin drake on a post at the Vista was almost completely in eclipse, a shadow of his former magnificence. He will look almost like a female till winter.

A Honeybee revolved on a cranesbill flower near the Lido.