Blue Tits in lamp posts

The Long-Tailed Tits' nest in the Rose Garden is at its busiest, with parents arriving every few minutes carrying insects to feed the chicks which are now calling continuously.

Two Blue Tit fledglings were part of a large family in a hawthorn beside the Long Water. 

A Blue Tit landed on a lamp post with insects before going inside to feed the chicks.

This isn't the lamp post I filmed yesterday: several of the gas lights in Hyde Park are used by Blue Tits. The posts have numbers: this one is 76, which has been a nest site for years. Yesterday's was 79. Both are on the south side of the Serpentine.

A slightly tatty Coal Tit in the Flower Walk has started coming to my hand. They're slow to trust you but when they do they're insatiable.

A pair of Reed Warblers are nesting  in the reed bed in the northwest corner of the Long Water. I got a distant shot of one arriving with a larva for the chicks.

The Song Thrush near Peter Pan was singing, but the Saturday crowds were too noisy for filming it.

Pigeon Eater and his mate were away again, and their presumed son was occupying his father's place on the Dell restaurant roof.

The four fountain pools in the Italian Garden now have a Coot nest in each of them. The first three have already produced chicks, but the fourth has only just been started.

The single Great Crested Grebe chick was visible across the Long Water at the Vista. The parents have done well to keep even one adequately fed at this time of year.

The Mute Swans had come to the near side with their seven cygnets to tout for food from the visitors. The huge and dangerous male stood on the edge ready to smash any troublemakers.

It was impossible to tell how the swans at the outflow were faring after yesterday's encounter with the fox, but at least the female was in place with slightly raised wings as if sheltering cygnets.

One of the two young foxes could be seen at the bottom of the Dell.

There are now four eggs in the nest by the Lido restaurant terrace, which were being guarded by the male.

The Black Swan was on the Serpentine by himself, hooting mournfully. Later he found his girlfriend and went over to her. She accepted his presence without enthusiasm.

The second pair of Canada Geese stood on the collapsing raft in the Long Water. They seem to be occupying it but have not yet shown any sign of wanting to nest.

The Egyptians with four small goslings were browsing at the edge of the horse ride beside the Serpentine Road. They have a hard time especially on busy Saturdays. Any time a dog is seen approaching the family has to cross the ride, the road and the pavement to get to the safety of the lake.

The big pink rugosa roses in the Rose Garden are particularly attractive to bees, which roll around ecstatically in the pollen. Here they are visited by Honeybees and a Buff-Tailed Bumblebee.

A Small White butterfly drank from an allium flower.