An occasional Goldfinch

There are oddly few Goldfinches in the park, though they are a common sight in the streets. When there are any here they're usually on the plane trees between the Rose Garden and Rotten Row, and there was just one twittering on a high branch today.

Inside the garden a Robin was in a bad mood in a rose bush. I had been so besieged by Great Tits that I had no pine nuts left and could only offer it peanuts, which it indignantly refused.

A Blue Tit was happy to take one ...

... and so was a Great Tit in a holly tree by the bridge.

Long-Tailed Tits were busy at the east end of the Lido. There are usually some here, and they nest in the nearby shrubberies.

A Wood Pigeon lurched about in a holly in the Dell trying to reach the berries.

Carrion Crows pulled the innards out of a dead pike washed up at the Lido.

Another looked askance at an agave in an urn at the Italian Garden.

Pigeon Eater surveyed his kingdom from the Dell restaurant roof.

A young Herring Gull at Fisherman's Keep played with a conker, ate a peanut, and had trouble with a Carrion Crow but routed it.

We've een odd couples of Herring Gulls and Lesser Black-Backs here before, but this is a new one as the Herring Gull is still young.

This pair of Black-Headed Gulls displaying noisily just along the shore is not the one I filmed yesterday, as those were both adult and one of these still has some juvenile plumage.

The Czech gull may lord it over the other Black-Headed Gulls, but even on his own territory he is no match for a Moorhen.

This one hasn't come nearly so far. It's an Essex gull raised on the rubbish dump at Pitsea.

The Common Gull at the Lido hasn't yet been joined by any others.

The Great Crested Grebes are changing into winter plumage.

The single Mute cygnet was at the Serpentine outflow with its father. So far they have avoided confrontation with the killer swan.