Four owlets and two grasshoppers

A Carrion Crow was feeling the heat on an urn in the Italian Garden.

Two young ones noisily begged their parents to feed them.

Mark Williams photographed a young Jay with its parent.

A Great Tit in the Flower Walk ate a pine nut.

A young Blackbird perched in a bush. It's now independent and not bothering its parents. I gave it some raisins.

All three Little owlets near the Round Pond could be seen in the same horse chestnut tree.

Their father kept an eye on them (and on me) from a tall lime.

One of the Little Owlets at the Serpentine Gallery looked out from the edge of a hole.

It retreated there after it was disturbed by a royal helicopter passing overhead to land at Kensington Palace. Since Prince Charles took over royal duties from the Queen there has been a great increase in the number of flights as he travels from Highgrove to London to lecture us about how we ought to save energy.

A Grey Heron stepped daintily through fallen chestnut leaves brought down prematurely by the hot dry weather.

The two most recent Coot chicks from the nest under the boat platform were keeping safely in cover.

The female Pochard was still at the Serpentine outflow.

A Meadow Brown butterfly fed on a buddleia flower at Peter Pan.

Two grasshoppers could be seen near the Queen's Temple. The brown one ...

... was considerably larger than the green one.

I know very little about Orthoptera but think they are both Meadow Grasshoppers of different colours and sizes.

A Harvestman settled on Neil's camera.

In the Italian Garden a pair of Pond Skaters mated on a pool.