Busy Wren

A Wren jumped about in a flower bed by the Lido catching midges.

Feral Pigeons in the Flower Walk dug among the wood chips laid in an attempt to eradicate bindweed. If you look closely at the one on the left you can see that it was finding small white creatures, evidently insect larvae.

One of the Coal Tits came out to take a pine nut. Both of the pair here are confident enough to come to my hand.

The one in the Dell has got slightly less shy, but it has to wait for the Great Tits to collect their share ...

... before it will venture out.

Starlings on the umbrellas at the Lido shone in the sunlight.

A Grey Heron kept a lookout from a treetop at the Triangle.

Pigeon Eater surveyed his territory from the roof of the Dell restaurant.

At a safe distance there was a crowd of young Herring Gulls, one eating a dribble of strawberry ice cream ...

... and another playing with a peculiar pink plastic toy ...

... but most of them perched on moored boats or flying around. I'm fairly sure that the high proportion of young gulls is due to the success of a large nesting colony on roofs in Paddington.

The Great Crested Grebe chicks from the east end of the island were playing together while they waited for a parent to arrive with a fish.

All the perches on the island were taken by Cormorants, including those in their favourite dead tree, so this one had to use the top of another tree. I don't know how these ungainly birds manage to land on such thin branches, and I still haven't caught one in the act.

The Coot on the post at Peter Pan was unmoved by a Cormorant ...

... but when the rival pair passed by there was a brisk fight.

A Mute Swan near the bridge enjoyed a furious wash.

There are still some Migrant Hawker dragonflies. This one was in the reeds by the bridge.

A Small White butterfly fed on a verbena flower in the Rose Garden.