Robins at work

Both the Robins at Mount Gate perched on the railings with insects for their nestlings.

A Long-Tailed Tit was also busy beside the Long Water ...

... and Ahmet Amerikali found another by the leaf yard.

One of the Blue Tits in the Rose Garden chattered impatiently in the hawthorn blossom because it wanted a pine nut immediately instead of being photographed.

A small bird was whizzing in and out of the bushes north of Peter Pan, catching insects over the water. I managed to snatch a shot when it paused on a visible twig for a moment, and it turned out to be a female Blackcap.

A Pied Wagtail sang on a post at Peter Pan which it was using as a hunting station for catching midges.

Quite a few Blackbirds can be heard and seen at the moment, including the one in the Rose Garden which I've filmed singing several times ...

... one in the Flower Walk which I've also filmed ...

... and one at Mount Gate.

Ahmet got a fine shot of a Reed Warbler at the east end of the Lido, where you can see sideways into the reed bed.

The female Little Owl at the Round Pond was calling, but it was hard to get a sight of her in the lime tree.

Pigeon Eater, not seen for several days, was back on his station by the Dell restaurant. He wasn't with his mate, who may be nesting on the restaurant roof.

A pair of Lesser Black-Backed Gulls is almost permanently on the Long Water, either on the posts where the raft was moored, or at Peter Pan.

The Grey Heron who hangs around at the bridge landed on the handrail, scattering Feral Pigeons.

A Coot fussed over its three chicks in a nest among the reeds under the parapet of the Italian Garden.

Every year Coots build nests on the long line of plastic buoys that surround the swimming area at the Lido. No nest has ever succeeded here, but that doesn't stop the Coots from trying again and again.

The Egyptian Geese near the Triangle took their surviving two goslings over the Serpentine Road and the horse ride to graze.

A male Hairy-Footed Flower Bee approached an ajuga flower to insert its enormously long proboscis. They ignore the big showy blooms in the border and prefer these modest little mauve flowers, although they are now withering.