Mid-July is late in the year for a Chiffchaff to be singing, but this one had a new family in the brambles under a tree near the leaf yard.
One of the young ones waited ...
... for its mother to arrive with an insect for it.
The usual Coal Tit in the Flower Walk came out to be fed ...
... and so did this Robin, but something I couldn't see (probably a Magpie) annoyed it and it started scolding.
A young Blackbird came out in the flower bed below. I gave it some raisins, which it took to at once.
The female Little Owl at the Serpentine Gallery wasn't being pestered by her owlets for once ...
... and could enjoy a quiet preening session.
The owlets by the Round Pond were also quiet. I just heard one brief call, not enough to make it possible to find them. Their parents had moved a few yards north of their usual trees. Here is the male, indignant as usual ...
... and the female looking down with mild curiosity. But I think that as the two families become quieter and move around more we're going to lose sight of them soon.
A Wood Pigeon sunbathed under the Henry Moore sculpture.
A Peregrine circled over the Albert Memorial and headed off southwards.
Mark Williams sent a pleasing picture of two young Jays in St James's Park.
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One of the three Mute cygnets on the Long Water had wandered off and lost contact with its siblings, and was piping sadly. It saw them from a distance and came over to rejoin them, and they exchanged greetings.
A Red Admiral butterfly perched on a nettle near Peter Pan.
Jabir Belmehdi got a remarkable shot of a male Buff-Tailed Bumblebee mating with a queen, which is much larger than him.
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Enjoyed mating bumble bees and list
ReplyDeleteHope the list will be gradually expanded.
DeleteThe Robin is such a little ball of fury.
ReplyDeleteWhatever happened to the cygnet that got lost a couple of years ago and tried to get adopted by other swan family?
I think the male Little Owl must have behavioural issues. His mate on the other hand is such a placid little lady.
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That cygnet disappeared. No one knows how. These things happen.
DeleteWe have two angry male Little Owls, it seems, though I have only experienced the one at the Round Pond. Both females are quite calm. I think this is normal, or at least not exceptional. We are seeing much more of Little Owl families than we have in previous years.
Great activity - preening - with the little owl Is it only the female who gets pestered? As a child I often found pester power more effective with my Dad
ReplyDeleteDifficult to know which parent begging is directed at, if it's directed at all. At the Serpentine Gallery the father keeps well out of the way and has only been seen once recently (and not photographed). The father at the Round Pond is much more hands-on, not to mention belligerently protective, and is more visible than the mother.
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