More ice

The Long Water is now mostly frozen, and the Pochards have been displaced under the bridge on to the Serpentine. Quite a lot of them seem to have left. The upper Thames will always be a refuge for waterfowl, as it would only freeze in the most exceptional conditions.

Coots walked unsteadily across the ice at Peter Pan.

Duncan Campbell got a good shot of a Herring Gull deliberately skating.

A young Grey Heron was looking into a small hole in the ice next to the fallen Lombardy poplar, hoping a fish would carelessly cross the gap.

On the Serpentine the nesting heron's mate was in the upper nest, apparently trying to pull twigs out of it to add to the lower one which is in use.

The heron with the red bill, still moping around without a new mate, was in the small nest to the right.

The killer Mute Swan and his family were at the Lido. The Serpentine is only partly frozen but will freeze more in the next few days, and space will be tight, so we may expect more aggression.

Jenna reports that the Black Swan has been trying to bully the resident male Mute Swan 4FYG at the island. Black Swans may be small but punch above their weight.

Good heavens, I'd never have noticed if it wasn't for this useful sign.

The Round Pond is half frozen, only on the east side, probably because of waves raised by the wind on the other side which have stopped ice from forming.

The Little Owl wasn't showing in the morning, and the pestilential squirrel was outside the hole. A dangling cobweb shows that the owls haven't been using this entrance. Even if the squirrel goes they may never return, as they tend not to when frightened away from a place.

But she emerged in the afternoon at the end of the diagonal branch.

A Robin perched in the brambles near the Queen's Temple.

A Magpie at the Lido restaurant has lost its tail feathers. It has been hanging around in the half-dead pleached lime trees that were an architect's idea of landscaping the restaurant terrace, and the other Magpies have been bullying it.

A Carrion Crow probed the top of the weeping beech tree near the Rose Garden, looking for larvae in the bark.

The pigeon-eating Lesser Black-Backed Gull was on the prowl in his usual place near the Dell restaurant.

The Czech Black-Headed Gull had come down from the No Swimming sign and was eyeing some people eating a snack on the nearby bench, hoping for some pickings.