It was the other Little Owl

I was wrong about which of the Little Owl pair had died, as the sad little corpse had already been partly eaten by Carrion Crows. It was the female. The male was back in his usual place in the sweet chestnut tree. He seemed listless and didn't bother to dodge out of the way when being photographed.

The female owl at the Round Pond was out again, in the usual lime tree. So she isn't nesting yet, if indeed she intends to after this year's disturbance.

Swifts, House Martins and Sand Martins were flying over the pond, and I got a mediocre picture of a Sand Martin.

The Song Thrush that I have seen carrying worms nearby was foraging under a tree.

Another Song Thrush was singing in the Flower Walk. I couldn't record it as the mower was making a racket on the grass below.

A young Robin lurked in a flower bed ...

... and a pair of Feral Pigeons canoodled on the path.

A Blackcap sang near Peter Pan.

Ahmet Amerikali got a picture of one of its fledglings.

A Carrion Crow on the path along the east side of the Long Water ate a bird cherry.

After I reported the ring number BLB1287 of the Reed Warbler under the Italian Garden, the BTO replied with  information. This bird was ringed by Rye Bay Ringing Group on 26 August 2023 at Icklesham, East Sussex. It was in its first year then and its sex was unknown -- but we have heard it singing since then so it's a male. The sighting in Kensington Gardens was the first since it was ringed.

Five of the six chicks from the newest Coot family in the Italian Garden followed a parent across the fountain pool, but the sixth stayed in the nest in the irises with its other parent.

The Bar-Headed x Greylag Goose hybrid on the Serpentine was feeling irritable because it's moulting, and had a squabble with the Greylags.

A single Egyptian gosling resting on the edge of the Serpentine preened its downy feathers.

The Mandarin and her three ducklings bounced in the little waves on the Round Pond.

The Mallard family was accompanied by the drake. He usually cruises a short distance offshore, as here, evidently to fend off incoming Herring Gulls.

The female Mandarin at the Vista was in the odd company of the Red-Crested Pochard drake and a young Grey Heron.

She came ashore to ask politely for sunflower seeds.

It wasn't sunny enough for a good showing of insects, but there was a Common Drone Fly, Eristalis tenax, on the oxeye daisies at Peter Pan.