Torrential rain in the morning finally slackened off, and a horde of Great Tit emerged in the Flower Walk to collect pine nuts.
The rain had softened the ground and worms were available again, so there were Robins everywhere. One had a bath in a puddle on the path beside the Long Water.
This is one of the parents at Mount Gate ...
... and its offspring which had just pulled up a worm. I don't know how these very small birds manage it.
Another young Robin looked down from a tree by the Steiner bench ...
... and an adult, maybe its parent, perched on a fallen tree trunk a few yards up the path.
The young Blackbird in the Flower Walk has been heard begging in the shrubbery for several days, but this is the first time I've seen it.
A Wood Pigeon soaked by the rain dried and preened on a branch.
A Grey Heron stretched a wing on a dead tree beside the Long Water.
Pigeon Eater had had his lunch and flown off, and another Lesser Black-Backed Gull was finishing off the remains.
The latest family of Egyptian Geese on the Serpentine still have nine goslings.
The Mute Swan with a single cygnet came to the edge looking hopeful.
The Mandarin duckling at the Round Pond was on the gravel strip. It's grown amazingly in the past two weeks.
A fox looked out from the railings near the Henry Moore sculpture ...
... then trotted along to join the vixen on the lawn.
She got bored with people pointing cameras at her.
A sunny spell in the afternoon brought out Honeybees on different coloured cosmos flowers at Peter Pan.
Did she get anything? (I think it's a female swan?).
ReplyDeleteI've seen pictures of a snow blizzard during the Royal International Air Tattoo in the airbase of Fairford. I don't think I have ever seen images of snow in August in GB.
Tinúviel
Yes, there was a kind person on the shore with duck pellets, which are good for geese and swans as well. The mother swan recognised her, which is why she came over.
DeleteIt snowed briefly in London on 1 June 1975. I was out in it. This was succeeded by a long hot spell, though not as hot as in 1976. We have never had anything like the summer of 1976 since, despite mendacious claims of higher temperatures measured next to the runways of airports. However, the summer of 1826 nearly matched this record.