Redwings on the Parade Ground

It has taken the Redwings several days to realise that the bare earth of the Parade Ground is safely fenced off and full of worms, but a few arrived today, too far off for a good video. There were also a Blackbird, Starlings, a Great Tit ...

... and a very distant Fieldfare, the first I've seen in the park for several years.

A Song Thrush beside the Long Water was well hidden in the twigs, but you could get glimpses of him as he sang.

To round off a collection of very poor quality images, I was over a mile from the deserted hotel in the Cromwell Road where the Peregrines nested last year when I saw one perched on the corner of the roof. It flew away before I could get any closer.

It's surprising that the Peregrines have stayed on this building, as it has finally been bought and is being renovated. You can see the scaffolding.

Sunshine brought the female Little Owl at the Round Pond out to her favourite horse chestnut tree.

A female Chaffinch appeared in a new place, the shrubbery at the Triangle. But I think this was the usual one from Kensington Gardens which had flown under the bridge, as she came down at once to take pine nuts from the ground.

The male turned up north of the Flower Walk and followed me to the Round Pond.

The male Chaffinch in the Rose Garden waited in a tree ...

... along with a Robin.

A Coal Tit perched on a teasel, then followed me round the garden confidently collecting pine nuts from my hand. It has got very bold in a short time.

Jackdaws near the Round Pond chattered as they collected in a treetop towards sunset before flying off to roost.

There was a brief and indistinct glimpse of a Grey Heron chick in the upper nest, the first time I've seen it though it has been heard for several weeks. You can just see a bit of fluff at the bottom right corner of the adult, which is looking fondly at it.

The pair from the west end of the island, which have not yet started nesting, were together on the charging platform for electric boats.

A heron stood in a tangle of plants on the Mute Swans' nesting island in the Long Water. When the swans settle down here they will quickly tear down the vegetation in their restless and pointless way, leaving the nest exposed.

The teenage swans saw someone feeding the waterfowl at the Vista and hurried over with their mother. They were assailed by a hungry mob of Black-Headed Gulls.

A Cormorant had managed to land in a tree above, a difficult approach through twigs, and was preening.

A pair of Egyptian Geese washed and preened under the edge of the Italian Garden.

The male at the Henry Moore sculpture guarded his territory while his mate was nesting in a nearby tree.