More Grey Wagtails

There are now at least three Grey Wagtails in the park. This young one was hunting in the Dell ...

... while Ahmet Amerikali was photographing the pair in the Italian Garden.

Ahmet also found a young Green Woodpecker, whose parents are often heard calling on Buck Hill ...

... and a Chiffchaff at the foot of the hill.

The Coal Tit in the Dell looked down from the yew tree. It has learnt that the sooner it allows itself to be photographed, the sooner it will get a treat of pine nuts laid on the railings.

A Blue Tit waited on a rose bush in the Rose Garden.

Starlings ran around in the enclosure of the Diana fountain looking for insects. What they were mostly finding was probably wirewoms, which are not worms but the long thin larvae of the click beetle which eat the roots of plants.

Pigeon Eater was in his usual place near the Dell restuarant looking for his next victim on the shore.

The single Grey Heron was again in the nest at the west end of the island.

A dramatic picture from Ahmet: a Cormorant caught a ruffe under the Italian Garden.

Cormorants crowded on to a fallen poplar in the Long Water. They haven't yet occupied the newly fallen tree, as it still has leaves on it ...

... but a Moorhen found this a convenient place to wash.

A Great Crested Grebe chick took hasty avoiding action as one of the boat hire people backed a churning outboard motor at it without looking. I do miss the considerate people of Bluebird Boats, who cared for the birds on the Serpentine.

A Buff-Tailed Bumblebee browsed on Michaelmas daisies in the Rose Garden.

A Honeybee worker with a full load of pollen few over the ivy at the back of the Lido ...

... and a very small hoverfly fed on a flower. I think it's a Lesser Banded Hoverfly, Syrphus vitripennis, but it could be a Common Banded, S. ribesii.