A male Blackcap sang near the leaf yard ...
... and a female flitted about in a motheaten tree near the bridge.
A family of Long-Tailed Tits were in the next tree, a red-leafed cherry.
Back at the leaf yard, a female Chaffinch could be seen in the bushes ...
... and a Jackdaw stared from a post, waiting for a peanut which of course it got.
So did a Jay beside the Long Water ...
... where the Wood Pigeon pair near the Steiner bench perched together on a twig.
There were good views of the Little Owls. Here is the male near the Round Pond, who gave a warning call ...
... one of the owlets in the same tree ...
... and another looking out of the nest hole in the dead tree.
The female adult at the Serpentine Gallery was out on a branch ...
... and one of the owlets was near the nest hole. The other could be heard but not seen.
A Cormorant at the island climbed on to a post and shook and flapped itself dry.
I'm not sure what this young Coot at the bridge thought it was doing, but it looks like just playing.
Moorhens delight in balancing and climbing.
Two Burnet Moths confronted each other on a ragwort flower head. I'm not sure whether this was a territorial display or whether they just happened to be in the same place.
The Stachys in the Rose Garden attracts butterflies as well as bees. Here is a Small White.
Two days ago we had a video of a Bumblebee and I wasn't sure whether it was Buff-Tailed or White-Tailed -- the former can have white tails too. But this one on a knapweed flower is definitely White-Tailed, as shown by the bright yellow of its stripes.
Maybe it is confused and thinks it is a Moorhen.
ReplyDeleteThat Jackdaw is all kinds of lovely. What a gorgeous silvery grey.
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Young Coots are a bit Moorhen-like, with oversized feet and unfringed toes that are some use for climbing, though they can never climb as well as Moorhens. When they grow up they lose most of that ability.
DeleteI'm very fond of Jackdaws. Richmond Park is the place for them: there are hundreds, maybe thousands, and they considerably outnumber the Carrion Crows.
The white "tail" on that bumblebee is gleaming white! Certainly agree with the ID. Males are much easier to ID.
ReplyDeleteYes, even I had a reasonable chance of getting that one right.
DeleteBut a new mystery looms, the bee that I carelessly identified as a Honeybee in my video of bees on Coreopsis flowers on Sunday 3 July. This was a pardonable error as I had been taking still photographs of an unquestionable Honeybee on that flower, then picked up the other camera to make a video and filmed what I thought was the same bee -- but it wasn't. Duncan Campbell suggested that it might be one of the mining bees, maybe Yellow-legged, maybe an Orange-legged Furrow Bee -- though I doubt these IDs as its legs are quite dark. It was roughly the size of a Honeybee. Will put up a still from the video in the next blog post.
DC is compiling a list of all the bees he has seen in the park, including UFOs. This promises to be long and interesting.