The Little Owl has a look around

The first time I visited the Round Pond looking for the Little Owl she was out of sight and the tree was festooned with Rose-Ringed Parakeets. The annoying squirrel was also there.

Later a Little Owl was calling, apparently the male whom I haven't see for some time. He stopped before I got close enough to find him, but his call had brought the female out on the sawn-off end of the branch of their tree.

She looked around the scene before going back in.

Soon afterwards a pair of Egyptian Geese came up to me beside the Round Pond and noisily demanded to be fed. I don't carry food for geese. They realised their mistake and wandered off. There are plenty of other people here who will give them all the unhealthy white bread they canm eat.

Another pair of Egyptian Geese stood on the stump of a poplar by the statue of Peter Pan. There were no rivals in sight, so they were fairly quiet for once.

I think the blond Egyptian of this pair at the Dell restaurant is the male who was jilted by his mate a couple of years ago. She went off with his goslings to join another male. If so, it's good to see him paired up again.

A pair of Gadwalls rested side by side in the Italian Garden.

The young Grey Heron was waiting by the terrace of the Lido restaurant, where there were quite a few visitors so it had a good chance of a titbit.

This nest on the island is directly above the one with a sitting Grey Heron in it, and the bird here, with a pale pink bill, looks like the other one of the pair. It seemed odd that it was poking around in the wrong nest. One explanation might be that it was looking for a loose twig it could pull out and bring to its own nest below.

Near the Dell restaurant two Black-Headed Gulls sat on one of the signs showing wildlife in the park. Their own image is at the bottom right of the picture.

The notorious Lesser Black-Backed Gull was prowling around purposefully below, hoping to catch an inattentive pigeon in the crowd of birds and humans around the restaurant.

There is always a pair of Carrion Crows on the south side of the Dell or on nearby Rotten Row. They are particularly attracted to a puddle that always forms here when it rains, which must be a rich source of some kind of small invertebrate.

A Jay by the Speke obelisk wanted a peanut, and got one.

So did the pair of Magpies near the Rudolf Steiner bench. They had a large and hungry family here last year, but the young one have now dispersed.

The male Chaffinch in the Flower Walk had just caught a pine nut in midair. He is a very bright and active bird, though his feet are in a bad state with the usual papilloma virus infection that all Chaffinches seem to get eventually.

The Blue Tits at Mount Gate also wanted feeding.

A band of Long-Tailed Tits were hunting in the Rose Garden shrubbery.