A glimpse of a Little Owl

Warm sunshine brought out a Little Owl in Hyde Park. The young ones are now looking completely adult.

It took a quarter of an hour playing hide and seek with the Coal Tit in the Dell before it would let itself be photographed.

Meanwhile a Great Tit ...

... and a Blue Tit were easier to capture.

Ahmet Amerikali got the Coal Tit in the Rose Garden, another very tricky subject.

A Chiffchaff flitted about in a lime tree on Buck Hill.

A Wren lurked in the shadows in a holly near Mount Gate.

The Robin at Mount Gate waited patiently for its daily pine nuts ...

... and so did the one near the Henry Moore sculpture.

There was another in the western stretch of the Flower Walk, still very shy and probably one of this year's birds.

Starlings gathered on an umbrella at the Lido restaurant.

A Grey Wagtail used the rocks beside the stream in the Dell as a hunting station to catch midges flying over the water.

A young Herring Gull investgated a sweet packet, unfortunately empty.

The dominant Black-Headed Gull on the landing stage had chased off all his rivals and rested comfortably on the planking.

Two Great Crested Grebe chicks played at fishing together on the edge of the Serpentine. They may have been catching some small creatures. Anyway, they are building the skills they will need when they become independent.

Two Moorhens enjoyed the fallen poplar at Peter Pan.

Another good picture by Ahmet: a Cormorant flying over the Serpentine.

A Common Carder bee climbed in and out of Variegated Monkshood flowers in the Rose Garden.