Sunshine and showers

The male Peregrine returned to his usual place on the barracks tower after a heavy shower. He must have a place among the complicated military electronics on the top where he can shelter from the rain.

The sun came out when it was still drizzling, illuminating a Robin on a watering spray in the Dell.

The Coal Tit came out in the corkscrew hazel to collect pine nuts.

A Blue Tit in the Rose Garden was also interested ...

... and so was the Robin which sings in the rose bush.

Pigeon Eater is beginning to get the grey-flecked head of his winter plumage.

There was a confusing gull at Fisherman's Keep. It has a dark band across its bill like a Common Gull, and the head shape and greyish ivory legs are also right for a Common. But it's quite big, almost as large as a Lesser Black-Back, and its back is a medium grey, darker than usual for a Common Gull. And it has unusual pale grey eyes, between the yellow of a large gull and the brown of a Common.

The Great Crested Grebes on the Long Water were by the willow with their single chick ...

... and the two chicks east of the island were attended by their parents ...

... but both the chick from the Dell restaurant nest ...

... and the two from the west end of the island had been judged able to stay on their own while their parents went off fishing for them.

A Cormorant washed furiously at the island.

The Coots' nest at the bridge, which the Coots are still using as a resting place, had been commandeered by a young Grey Heron, and Mute Swans were milling about.

One of the six young swans at the Vista preened its wings. They are now fully developed but the bird still has to learn to fly.

The single cygnet was on its own again at the east end of the Serpentine.

Three Gadwall drakes at Peter Pan tipped up to reach down to the algae growing on the bottom of the lake.

The terrapin was on the willow at the bridge, giving an unusually clear view.