First come, first served

The Great Crested Grebe chicks at the bridge are now swimming around freely. When they see a parent approaching with a fish they hurry to seize it.

One of the chicks on the east side of the Long Water knew which direction its parent would come from when bringing a fish, and went out to intercept it.

The pigeon-eating Lesser Black-Backed Gull was with his offspring, and his mate wasn't far away. They were all very quiet and probably digesting a large meal of fresh pigeon.

A Grey Heron sunbathed in a willow on the Long Water.

The aggressive Mute Swans had taken a break from their invasion of the Long Water, and were under the willow near the Triangle car park, a prime place for getting fed by visitors too lazy to walk far from their car.

Most of the Egyptian goslings are grown up now. This is the youngest brood of five near the small boathouses.

Blackcaps were moving around in a holly tree on the west side of the Long Water. The berries are still very unripe, and they can hardly have been eating them. Ahmet Amerikali reported seeing six Blackcaps on the other side of the lake near the bridge, probably the same ones.

This is his fine picture of the Reed Warbler near the Italian Garden arriving with insects for the two chicks.

A Coal Tit hung upside down from a hawthorn twig.

Long-Tailed Tits jumped around in an oak.

The Little owlet at the Serpentine is beginning to look quite grown up: definitely male and with his father's enormous eyebrows.

The female at the Round Pond was in the usual horse chestnut tree.

This is the Carrion Crow that hangs around a puddle on the south side of the Dell. It's often seen probing the mud and apparently finding edible things in it, but I could never see what they were. Today it hauled up a mysterious pink object which it ate. Unfortunately the photograph doesn't show it clearly, so I still have no idea of what the puddle provides.

A fox trotted through a patch of sunlight under the trees.

The big pink rugosa roses in the Rose Garden are particularly popular with bees. Three Honeybees crowd together in a single flower, rolling ecstatically in the abundant pollen.

A Comma butterfly perched on a leaf near Mount Gate.