Robins everywhere

A Robin sang quietly among rose hips in the Rose Garden.

Singing when the other small birds have shut up, they are far the most noticeable species in the park, and despite the crowds on a warm Sunday they could be seen all over the place. This one was singing in a buckthorn tree by the Italian Garden ...

... and of course the usual one at Mount Gate came out for pine nuts.

Jays are not much seen at the moment. Acorns are beginning to ripen and they are collecting and burying them. This one by the Henry Moore sculpture was in a yew tree eating the fruit, but it was right next to an oak and would have gone back to work after its meal.

A Starling at the Lido restaurant grabbed a bit of bread ...

... starting a fight.

Pigeon Eater seems to tolerate the Herring Gull pair often seen on the Dell restaurant roof, perhaps because the two are always together.

The Peregrine is being most uncooperative. He was on the tower several times but always when I was a long way off.

The wooden posts around the Serpentine island are crowded with Cormorants and Grey Herons, so some of them are having to stand on the wire baskets of water plants. The original ornamental plants in these floating baskets died quickly, and they are gradually filling up with naturally seeded purple loosestrife, great willowherb and grass, which looks perfectly pleasing.

Ahmet Amerikali got a picture of a Cormorant catching a fair-sized perch.

The Great Crested Grebes with a single large chick were by the lake outflow.

The single Coot chick was still around, always in the same place east of the Lido.

Another picture by Ahmet, a Tufted drake flying over the Serpentine.

A view down the Long Water from the Italian Garden, with the male Egyptian Goose whose mate is nesting in a nearby tree.

A dark sunflower in the Rose Garden was keeping a Buff-Tailed Bumblebee occupied ...

... and a Common Carder visited the blue ground convolvulus in the Dell.

I think this moth in the grass near the Queen's Temple is a Satin Grass Moth, Crambus perlella, but there are lots of species of pale narrow grass moths and I may well be wrong.

A fallen tree trunk near the Buck Hill shelter produces growth after growth of Dog Vomit Slime Mould, Fuligo septica, which despite its horrible name is a pretty lemon yellow. It fades and dries up in a few days and is quickly succeeded by another patch.