Regular customers in the Rose Garden

Now that insects are plentiful the small birds are mostly uninterested in the pine nuts on offer. Exceptions are the tatty Blue Tit in the Rose Garden, who seems to be in poor health and may not be hunting well ...

... and the Robin who is busy feeding his mate on the nest -- I don't think they have chicks yet, as these would be audible.

The Robins by the Henry Moore sculpture certainly have chicks in a nest deep in the bushes, as they are both constantly out collecting insects for them.  One of them took time off to sing on a branch.

A Wren was singing by the Speke obelisk.

A Starling shone in the sunlight on the knob of an umbrella at the Lido restuarant.

The female Little Owl was on the usual high branch of the lime tree. Her mate was lower in the tree, only just visible and impossible to photograph.

One of the three Grey Heron chicks on the island looked out of the nest. The other too were farther back in the nest, but they were moving around and you couldn't see all of them at the same time.

A young heron, probably from this year's first nest, was fishing almost out its depth on the Long Water. Sometimes they lose their footing and float high in the water. They can swim, but slowly and clumsily.

A Coots' nest by a reed bed by the Serpentine was commandeered a fishing station by another heron, which was tough luck on the Coots.

It wouldn't have bothered the Coots in the Italian Garden, which have just built a third nest for their large family.

A Coot at the Peter Pan waterfront pulled up algae for one of its four chicks. A pair of Cetti's Warblers is nesting nearby, and you can hear the dramatic song of the male at the beginning of the video.

A pair of Great Crested Grebes displayed near the bridge. There has been no recent attempt at nesting but they will probably start soon, as the new young fish should now be big enough to feed the chicks.

The Mute Swans on the Long Water took their seven new cygnets on an outing.

Another brood of four Egyptian goslings has come out on the south shore of the Serpentine. There were other Egyptians nearby, which the parents were warning off noisily.

The Egyptian survivor was on the shore near the island. It stretched a wing, showing well developed primaries.

The Greylags on the Serpentine still have one gosling, which they were sheperding carefully down the lake.

There is just one Red-Crested Pochard drake on the Long Water, unusual as they are quite social ducks.

A Buff-Tailed Bumblebee visited a single pink rose in the Rose Garden. Most of the highly cultivated roses here are tight double blooms which bees can't get into.