Unenthusiastic Magpie

A female Magpie solicited her mate to feed her, which he would need to do when she was nesting. He didn't seem very keen on the idea and went away.

A Pied Wagtail twittered on a post at the Vista as it waited for an insect to pass.

After a while it flew along to the Coots' nest at Peter Pan. It's a good place for hunting insects, as the Coots' messy nest attracts these.

A Dunnock sang on a stem in the bushes nearby.

The male Reed Warbler at the east end of the Lido was singing.

On a warm afternoon a Wood Pigeon cooled itself by splashing in the lake.

Starlings bathed next to a female Mallard, splashing water on her. She got annoyed after a while and swam off.

The Robin pair at the nest in the middle of the Rose Garden came out to collect pine nuts to feed to their chicks.

The Little Owls at the Round Pond were on their favourite branch in the lime tree. They really aren't easy to see when they're here, and you have to know the exact spot to get anything like a view.

Two Cormorants on a fallen tree in the Long Water were waving and grabbing at twigs. It's clear that they are a couple but this wasn't really a pair display, they were just amusing themselves.

Mark Williams photographed a Grey Heron eating quiche in St James's Park. Herons will eat just about anything they can pick up, though they might draw the line if there was pineapple on it.

An interesting picture from Mike Harris, who was swimming at the Lido with an underwater camera: a Mute Swan pulling up algae from the bottom.

The swan nesting in the reeds at the east end of the Serpentine is very hard to see, but the nest has been going for a while and seems firmly established.

The male Egyptian Goose at the Albert Memorial, like the one at the Henry Moore sculpture, has been on his own for some days and it's clear that his mate is nesting in a tree.

A pair of Gadwalls dabbled under a post at Peter Pan.

The sunshine has warmed the shallow water in the Italian Garden pools, bringing the carp to the surface as there is less oxygen dissolved in warm water.

A early Dryad's Saddle fungus, Polyporus squamosus, at the northwest corner of the bridge. Usually you see them growing on dead tree trunks, but this one is on some rotten wood on the ground.