A bold Wood Mouse

Most of the songbirds have fallen silent for the summer, but the Song Thrush at Peter Pan is still performing well.

There was also a Blackbird singing on the other side of the lake but it wasn't visible.

A young Great Tit called from the railings before flying to my hand. They are all coming now.

One settled down on my hand to eat a pine nut and wouldn't budge when the other birds tried to land -- it even scolded them. It was on my right hand, so I couldn't take a picture. But Mark Williams had exactly the same experience in St James's Park and was using his left hand, so he did get a picture of the stubborn bird, which was wondering if his thumb was edible.

One of the young Long-Tailed Tits from the family near the Italian Garden.

A female Chaffinch followed me from the leaf yard most of the way to the Round Pond. I don't think this was the mate of the familiar male, since when last seen she had healthy feet and this one's are quite badly infected with the papilloma virus.

The condition affects mainly Chaffinches and it seems that they all get it in the end. But other birds are sometimes infected, such as this Jay in the Flower Walk, and I've also seen a Blackbird and a Moorhen with the same condition.

A pair of Magpies chattered at each other in a tree by the Buck Hill shelter.

It rained in the morning but stopped soon after noon, and the male Little Owl at the Round Pond came out of the dead tree where he had been sheltering and perched on a branch.

The young Grey Heron perched in the willow tree next to the bridge.

Below it, a pair of Great Crested Grebes were hanging around. I think it's the pair that nested in the tree last year and they would like to go there again, but at the moment a Coot has the site. It just seems to be squatting and not nesting, so they should be able to evict it.

Repairs have started on the damage to the bridge, beginning with a survey. This end of the bridge hasn't been level for a century or more, as one side has subsided a few inches into the London clay. It's going to be a big job, as some of the large stones in the cornice have been displaced and it will be exceptionally hard work sliding them back -- it's not clear how they are going to do it. Structural repairs will be done this year but the balustrade won't be remade till 2025.

The fallen masonry has been cleared from underneath, but the traffic cone is still there. The Coot nesting here seems very fond of it: anything bright coloured fascinates them.

However, neither of the two Coot nests on this side of the bridge has eggs in it now. Probably they have been raided by Herring Gulls.

Someone had been throwing strawberries on the ground near the Serpentine island. This happens quite often, and apparently the person thinks that they are a special treat for the birds. Actually most birds aren't keen on strawberries. A young Herring Gull chewed one experimentally and spat it out ...

... but a Canada Goose seemed happy enough with another.

The whole length of the south shore of the Serpentine is lined with moulting Canada and Greylag Geese, plus a few Egyptians and Mute Swans.

Most of the Egyptians cluster on the other side near the Dell restaurant. Coots gather farther up the shore near the Triangle.

A tiny Wood Mouse appeared unexpectedly on the edge of the Diana fountain enclosure, and didn't seem alarmed by the people passing by on the path. Some stopped to look at it when they saw I was filming. Wood Mice are fairly common in the park but you hardly ever see them.

A Holly Blue butterfly perched on a leaf in the Rose Garden. There have been a lot of them this year but not many other butterflies. Dragonflies and damselflies are also scarce.