Happy Song Thrush

The Song Thrush in the blackthorn tree at the east end of the Lido was singing intermittently between eating sloes.

Magpies picked up the fallen fruit below.

Long-Tailed Tits ranged through a leafless horse chestnut tree by the Henry Moore statue, perhaps eating the leaf miner moth larvae that devaststed the leaves.

A Coal Tit in the Flower Walk perched beside leaf buds developing for next spring.

A Blue Tit pecked delicately at a pine nut in the Rose Garden ...

... and a Robin arrived to perch on my hand and take five.

Starlings, Feral Pigeons and Magpies vied for a dropped bread crust at the Lido restaurant, but a Carrion Crow strolled in and won.

Autumn colours are appearing. A view along the edge of the Diana fountain enclosure, with the red sweetgum tree, the Big Bird statue and the bridge.

Just beyond the tree the dominant Black-Headed Gull lorded it over the landing stage.

There was a stiff breeze and Pigeon Eater was paddling in the surf at the edge. Some remains along the edge showed that he had had breakfast.

The single Common Gull at Peter Pan is always on the same post.

The Great Crested Grebes and their chick at the east end of the Serpentine bounced in the waves and had slight trouble with a Black-Headed Gull looking for fish to snatch.

The chick crash-dived to avoid a Herring Gull.

The two chicks from the east end of the island are still inseparable.

The single one from the bridge was divng in the blue reflection of the pontoon, which is now a useful fishing spot.

The number of Coots on the Serpentine is rising steadily and there are now well over 200 of them ...

... far outnumbering the Moorhens, which they persecute.

Ahmet Amerikali photographed a Cormorant catching a small perch under the Italian Garden.