A very happy Christmas to everyone. It was a beautiful though chilly day and the park was thronged with people, so there wasn't much to see and this is really just a round of the regular birds.
The reeds by the Italian Garden looked pretty in the sunshine.
A cotoneaster bush at the southwest corner of the bridge was making a fine show of berries.
As you can see, quite a lot of them have been eaten. I've never seen any bird feeding on the fruit here, and the twigs are too thin to support Wood Pigeons, so I think it must have been the pair of Song Thrushes at the bottom of the steps by the lake. They wouldn't come out in this exposed place when there were people around.
There was a good assortment of Christmas Robins: at the bridge ...
... near the Buck Hill shelter ...
... and at Mount Gate.
Coal Tits appeared at the gate of the Flower Walk ...
... in a bush in the Rose Garden ...
... and in the corkscrew hazel in the Dell ...
... where the pair were joined by some Blue Tits.
A Jay was waiting for service in a plane tree behind the Albert Memorial.
A Magpie foraged along the edge of the lake by the Lido restaurant. It's always surprising to see how they can find edible things in apparently barren places. Wagtails also hunt along this stretch with equal success.
The usual female Wagtail was farther along the shore at Fisherman's Keep.
Another familiar sight: the dominant Black-Headed Gull guarding his territory at the landing stage.
A Grey Heron at the island was conveniently captioned.
A Great Crested Grebe was lit by the low sunlight.
Four of the six teenage Mute Swans from the Long Water went under the bridge to cause trouble on the Serpentine.
One of the others stayed behind in their resting place in the reeds.
A pair of Egyptian Geese noisily claimed territory on a tree by the leaf yard, defying a single one on a lower branch.
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