A cold wet day kept people out of the park. The Moorhen family had the run of the Italian Garden fountains. There's a pair and three grown-up young from last year.
The Mute Swans could graze in peace on the grassy back at the back of the Lido. The Black Swan was with them, well behaved for once.
The boss swan and his mate thought it wasn't wet enough, so cruised about under the waterspouts on the edge of the Italian Garden.
A Great Crested Grebe yawned at the east end of the Serpentine.
Despite the weather, a tree in the North Flower Walk has decided that it's cherry blossom time.
The advance party of hungry small birds in the Rose Garden is coming out farther and farther. A Great Tit was waiting on a rope in front of the daffodils lining the Serpentine Road.
Another perched in dogwood blossom on the north side of the garden.
Inside, one of many Blue Tits arrived on a dripping hawthorn twig ...
... and one of the Coal Tit pair was in a rose bush.
A Coal Tit at Mount Gate successfully got a pine nut from the ground.
The male Robin ...
... and his mate were only slightly damp, as they had been sheltering in the bushes.
Jackdaws cropped up all along the way. One stood on a sign by the leaf yard ...
... and tthere were at least a dozen along the Serpentine Road.
A Jay was impatient behind the Albert Memorial.
A white Feral Pigeon in the Flower Walk looked strangely ominous, like a marble version of the Maltese Falcon.
The female Pied Wagtail glanced up as her mate flew over her at Fisherman's Keep, and a moment later took off and followed him.
Pigeon Eater had nothing to do, as the pigeons were sheltering under the overhanging roof of the Dell restaurant. He stepped off the kerb to go for a little cruise.
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Fancy having the capacity to go on your own cruise. Aren't gulls admirable?
ReplyDeleteIndeed the resemblance to the Maltese Falcon is uncanny, but somehow I doubt feral pigeons are the stuff dreams are made of!
Swans can't resist being surly, even when peacefully grazing and having lots of grass to go around.
Tinúviel
If the film had been called The Maltese Pigeon it might not have been so successful. Cf Where Pigeons Dare, The Pigeon Has Landed, etc.
DeleteThe Black Swan was being most unusually restrained. Access to all that excellent fresh grass seems to have mellowed him for a while.
The Jays know how to work you well for a peanut! They come across so innocent, sincere and charming with their looks and tilt of the head. If only they were like that when predating chicks, fair play to them.
ReplyDeleteSean