Little Owls exchanging calls

The Little Owls at the Round Pond called to each other. The video shows the male, though he was more fluffed up than usual and looked as big and round as a female, but the calls identify them.

It wasn't possible to film the female, as she was  hidden in horse chestnut leaves. I got a momentary glimpse.

The usual Magpies were around on the ground below. There are a lot of them here. Thy don't seem to be bothering the owls, which is surprising.

A young Robin called from the corkscrew hazel bush in the Flower Walk, and a parent turned up with some food for it.

A young Great Tit near the bridge fluttered its wings and made scratchy begging calls.

Virginia got a dramatic shot of one of the Long-Tailed Tits in the Rose Garden arriving at the nest with an unfortunate spider.

I saw one bringing a Crane Fly and an unidentified caterpillar.

The young Starlings are out of the nest and following their parents around begging to be fed. At this age they are plain brown without the gorgeous brocade plumage of an adult. These were on the grassy bank at the Lido.

The young herons were lurching around the island, and also returning to the nest and clattering loudly for food.

Pigeon Eater, absent for several days, was back in his usual place by the Dell restaurant.

I managed to get a better recording of the mysterious bird call at the Triangle car park -- at the cost of cuts and scratches from milling around in the bushes -- and this time the Merlin app was able to identify it. It's a young Great Spotted Woodpecker begging in the nest hole, so in fact the nest in this video has nothing to do with it, and it's out of sight inside a tree. Compare the Xeno-Canto recording here.

A Great Crested Grebe preened beside the island. There's a pair here. It's possible that the other is nesting behind the wire baskets.

A view of the Coots' nest at the bridge, seen looking down from the parapet. One was sitting on the enormous collection of eggs, more than it could completely cover, and the other turned up with food for one of the already hatched chicks.

On the Long Water the female Mute Swan had returned to her nesting island with the seven cygnets.

The Greylag Geese with two goslings rested in the shade of a willow. In the background you can see the pair with one, and their Canada helper.

The male Egyptian in the Italian Garden, having nothing to do while his mate was in her nest hole, reclined on the balustrade.

One of the two larger goslings of the ill-matched four preened the emerging brown feathers on its wings.

The Stachys byzantina. aka 'Lamb's Ears', in the Rose Garden is coming into flower. It's a favourite with Buff-Tailed Bumblebees.