Just one more cygnet

A large family of Great Tits by the bridge clamoured and fluttered at their parents to get fed.

It was the same scene in the Flower Walk, and in several other places around the park.

The Robin nesting by the Henry Moore sculpture came out of the bushes with a pink caterpillar ...

... and decided it would be a good idea to collect a pine nut as well before returning to the nest.

Julia photographed a Great Spotted Woodpecker feeding a fledgling near the Speke obelisk.

A Chiffchaff sang in a treetop by the Steiner bench.

On the other side of the path a female Blackcap saw me raising the camera and fled, so I got just one shot.

The male Little Owl at the Serpentine Gallery was in the top of the chestnut tree. He too is shy and you have to be quick about photographing him. His mate is much more tolerant.

The Coots nesting on the wire basket at the bridge, which had chicks but lost them, now have a second clutch of eggs.

The Mute Swan nesting in a reed bed at the east end of the Serpentine has hatched just one cygnet. This is the only one on the Serpentine, as the killer swan is staying on the Long Water at the moment. Let's hope he doesn't find it until it's able to get away from him.

The Mallard on the Round Pond and her six ducklings were looking for small water creatures in a puddle washed up by the waves.

The three Mandarin ducklings were scooting about the pond at great speed, and their mother sometimes had to fly to keep up with them.

Jon Ferguson has found another family of Gadwall x Mallard hybrids on the Grand Union Canal. It's the fourth sighting: there really is a lot of miscegenation going on here. This is one of the ducklings that has Gadwall looks.

A Mint Moth, also called a Small Purple and Gold, Pyrausta aurata, browsed in a patch of catmint in the Rose Garden.

Tom, at Rainham Marshes, found a Small Copper butterfly, Lycaena phlaeas.

A Common Carder bee worked over a knapweed flower at the back of the Lido ...

... where there was also a Common Blue damselfly in the grass.

There was a report of a Red-Veined Darter dragonfly at the Round Pond. I went round looking for it without success. One more fine day is forecast before the weather turns nasty again, so there's still hope of finding one.