Sister owl

A Little Owl watched from the tree in Hyde Park. This one is certainly female, and I think it's the sister of the male I photographed here the day before yesterday, both hatched this year and now grown up.

A family of Greenfinches flitted about in a holly tree by the Long Water. These are only three of half a dozen.

A Wren hunted insects in a pyracantha bush at the Diana fountain car park.

There was another in the Dell ...

... where two Coal Tits put in an appearance ...

... and a Jay was looking for worms.

Spilt crisps by the Serpentine provided two Carrion Crows with the chance to have a mild dispute. They're never as happy as when they're bullying each other.

This Robin in a hawthorn in the Rose Garden is an old friend who comes to my hand, but I don't see him all that often since they destroyed the shrubbery and most of the small birds left.

A female Pied Wagtail hunted along the edge at the Lido. It has an unusual speckled face, and I think it may be a young one not quite yet in adult plumage.

A young Herring Gull washed, shook itself dry, and preened.

One of the odd coloured Lesser Black-Backs was here too.

Yesterday Ahmet Amerikali found a Kingfisher near the Italian Garden, which I missed although I always check the waterside bushes.

He also got a good shot of a Cormorant catching a large carp under the parapet ...

... and one of the Firecrests in Battersea Park.

A young Cormorant on the roof of one of the boathouses had a very white front and looked almost like a penguin.

A Grey Heron waited for a fish to come out of the reed bed by the Serpentine outflow.

A Common Carder bee browsed on a dahlia in the Rose Garden. They vary a lot in colour. Some are a washed-out beige, but this one was such a dark ginger that I had to check carefully that it wasn't a Tree Bumblebee.