A glimpse of two Grey Heron chicks

There are at least two chicks in the Grey Herons' nest on the island. Again, this is a pretty terrible video, but you can just see them preening. I don't think we're going to get a better view than this until they start getting adventurous and climb around on the branches.

The Egyptian Geese on the Round Pond preened on the gravel strip in the wind, guarding their last surviving gosling. A young Herring Gull drifted past with a hungry look in its eye.

There have been no further developments with the other Egyptians. The male at the Henry Moore statue wandered vaguely around Buck Hill, occasionally eating a bit of grass. Do birds get bored? I think this one is. Without his mate he has no enjoyable displaying and shouting on a treetop.

The male at the Italian Garden, preening on the submerged wall of the old water filter, was annoyed by a Cormorant fishing next to him.

The Great Crested Grebes from the Serpentine island were fishing near the lake outflow. The male has a distinctively dark face.

The pigeon-eating Lesser Black-Gull's mate, as immaculate as him, was loafing around by the Dell restaurant.

The female Peregrine was on the tower by herself.

Usually the Redwings stay in the shadows under their tree, ready to flee into the branches at the slightest sign of danger, but today one of them came out into the sunlight.

A Jay by the Italian Garden swooped down to grab a peanut from my hand and ate it on a branch.

A Magpie at the Triangle was expecting one.

One of the very shy Blackbirds in the Rose Garden was safe on a high branch but still nervous. Attempts to charm them with raisins have had no effect.

A pair of Great Tits here are now regular customers for pine nuts and follow me around.

At Mount Gate a Blue Tit ...

... a Coal Tit ...

... and a Long-Tailed Tit looked down from the trees.

There was plenty of time to film this Buff-Tailed Bumblebee on a paperbush in the Dell as it spent at least ten minutes on one flower, feeding from one floret after another.