No shortage of woodpeckers

Yesterday Andrew Skeet found a Green Woodpecker ...

... and a Great Spotted Woodpecker ...

... both of which I had missed, and I was envious. But today I got them myself. The Great Spotted Woodpecker was near the Round Pond ...

... and the Green was at the foot of Buck Hill ...

... where it saw another on the ground and there was a brief fight.

Also below Buck Hill, several Blackcaps were singing in the woodland.

Back at the Round Pond, the female Little Owl stared suspiciously out of her hole.

A pair of Magpies beside Rotten Row looked very fond of each other until the male found a bit of bread and promptly flew away with it.

One of the Jays in the Flower Walk waited in the corkscrew hazel to be given a peanut.

A Carrion Crow bathed at the Lido ...

...and flapped soggily into a tree to dry itself.

The Great Crested Grebes' nest in the reeds on the Long Water remains a going concern.

The Mandarin pair in the Italian Garden preened on a rail.

The female Mute Swan on the nest east of the Lido dozed on her eggs. There must be several by now but I haven't had a chance to count them.

In the Rose Garden several Buff-Tailed Bumblebees were browsing exclusively on yellow wallflowers ...

... and there was what I thought was a Common Wasp but it turns out to be another nomad bee, probably the same as yesterday's species which was a Painted Nomad.

A remarkable picture from Spain, taken at Monfragüe by Tinúviel's bird guide Jesús Porras: a Griffon Vulture carrying nesting material is chased by a Bonelli's Eagle.