Wrens

The Wren is the commonest bird in Britain and they lurk unobtrusively all over the park. Here are one in the woodland at the bottom of Buck Hill ...

... in the shrubbery at the southeast corner of the bridge ...

... and under the tatty plywood hoarding surrounding the Lido bathing area.

Mark Williams took this pleasing picture of a Robin with a matching background. It's the evergreen shrub appropriately called Red Robin, whose leaves are red when they emerge and turn green later.

This is the female of the pair of Great Tits in the Rose Garden shrubbery which are always waiting to demand peanuts.

There is always a Wood Pigeon here. Although it will eat almost any fruit it shuns the vile-smelling plum-like objects on the ginkgo tree at the east end. If you even touch one of these you have to scrub hard with hot water and soap to get the stink off your fingers.

A young Long-Tailed Tit in the Dell hung casually upside down by one foot to eat a larva held in the other.

Ahmet Amerikali photographed this young Goldcrest in the Flower Walk.

A young Jay emerged on another tree, with the same plumage pattern as an adult but still looking slightly fluffy.

The marble fountain in the Italian Garden provided a drink, a bath and a preen for one of the resident pair of Carrion Crows.

At the Round Pond it was the female Little Owl's turn to look out of the hole.

The charging dock for the new electric boats has become a fishing station for a Grey Heron.

No amount of visiting by the enterprising young heron will tempt its timid sibling out of the nest. There is definitely something wrong with it, though it seems perfectly all right physically.

The three Great Crested Grebe chicks on the Serpentine were making a racket near the Lido.

I didn't see the four on the Long Water, which are much smaller and still not loud. This is an unattached male resting under the bridge.

The Coot sitting on the very late nest in the Italian Garden fountain got up to have a preen. It will be several days before the eggs hatch.

One of the Mandarin drakes came to the edge at the Vista, hoping to be fed. It will eat from your hand.

There are still Red Admiral butterflies in the brambles on the west side of the Long Water.