Peregrines back on the tower

The daily trip up the Flower Walk produces more and more hungry birds, and it can take half an hour to cover 200 yards. Here are a Coal Tit ...

... and a Blue Tit in an evergreen bush.

Long-Tailed Tits never take any notice of people. They just get on with their eternal hunt for insects.

A Pied Wagtail on the Parade Ground was similarly engaged.

I got a hasty snap of it with a small larva.

A Redwing pulled up a worm. It's quite a struggle for a small bird.

The Peregrine pair perched on the tower, as usual an unsociable distance apart ...

... but they still called to each other, just audible above the noise of children playing football 300ft below.

Black-Headed Gulls in the Italian Garden were hauling up what I think were 'rat-tailed maggots', hoverfly larvae with long siphons, but it's hard to tell when they're covered with algae.

The Little Grebe was with its friends the Gadwalls ...

... and also fishing by itself under the fountain.

A pair of Great Crested Grebes at the island were displaying in front of a soggy mess that only a grebe would consider a nest.

They spent more time displaying than building. I'm not sure they're serious about nesting.

The dominant Mute Swans had cleared out the intruders from the Long Water and were at the Vista touting for food. The male shooed a Canada Goose.