Hungry young Wren

A Wren fledgling pestered a parent for food in a tree near the Speke obelisk.

A Blackbird collected larvae for his young from the wood chips under a tree near the Dell.

The young Grey Wagtail in the Dell was on its favourite rock beside the stream.

There was also a young Great Tit which had come down for a drink.

A Rose-Ringed Parakeet ate unripe hawthorn berries beside the Long Water.

The male Little Owl at the Round Pond was in the small lime tree, but I still couldn't find the owlets despite two visits.

Coot chicks preened on their nest in a planter in the Italian Garden fountains. All seven are still surviving.

The Mallard and her eight ducklings basked on the sun-warmed kerb of the pool in the Italian Garden until an Egyptian Goose barged in and scared them on to the water.

The single duckling near the Triangle car park is hanging on, and now large enough to have a good chance of survival.

A short way along the shore there was a single very small Egyptian gosling, which is going to have to be very lucky to make it.

The Mute Swan on the Long Water has managed to keep her two surviving cygnets away from the pike.

Today's insects are a rather ordinary lot, as I am waiting for more mystery bees from Duncan Campbell.

The lavender in the Rose Garden is in full bloom and attracting Buff-Tailed Bumblebees ...

... and Honeybees.

The long grass around the Round Pond is alive with Common Blue Damselflies ...

... and small Grass Veneer moths. Update: Conehead 54 thinks this one may be Agriphila straminella.

The Mount Etna broom tree by the Huntress fountain in the Rose Garden is a mass of yellow flowers.

The fountain itself is being restored, a much needed job since the waterworks were constantly breaking down. The electric pump that powers the upper waterfall in the Dell has also failed.