A Wood Pigeon's dreadful diet

The Little owlets are still putting on a good show, with one looking down from the tree hole near the Round Pond ...

... and another on the chestnut at the Serpentine Gallery.

In the Flower Walk the bold Coal Tit came out several times to be fed.

In the flower bed below a Wood Pigeon ate lords and ladies berries. These are supposed to be extremely poisonous as well as harsh tasting from calcium oxalate, but Wood Pigeons seem to get away with eating all kinds of horrible plants.

Both Peregrines were on the tower, but wouldn't come to the edge for a good picture. The female was preening.

Magpies bathe repeatedly, shaking themselves dry after every splash. This one was bathing at the top of the Dell waterfall.

A Grey Heron's fierce bill was lit up by the sun.

A Cormorant on a post at Peter Pan panted to cool itself.

The Mute Swan family from the gravel back in the Long Water are now often seen on the Serpentine. They have discovered that people will feed them at the Triangle car park.

A Mallard with six new ducklings crossed the lake at the Vista ...

and cruised over to the crowded Peter Pan waterfront.

There were two Tufted ducklings on the Long Water, some distance apart but no doubt with the same mother. This is one.

And there was a single slightly older duckling on the Serpentine.

A Garden Spider waited in a web at the Dell restaurant.

Common Blue Damselflies mated in the Italian Garden. Females can be various colours and this one is an unusually bright yellow.