Long-Tailed Tits' nest

A Long-Tailed Tits' nest by the leaf yard ...

... was a busy scene, with birds bringing feathers to line it ...

and pausing to preen.

Unfortunately the entrance is on the far side of the nest, so they can't be photographed going in or out.

A Robin was watching. It accepted some pine nuts.

This is probably its last year's nest, which would have been deep in the brambles but has been exposed by cutting them back.

The female Robin at Mount Gate was waiting to be fed. I don't know what she's eating in the last shot, not something I gave her.

Tom, Ahmet and I were trying to photograph the Cetti's Warbler at the Vista, which was occasionally visible but never in a place for a shot. However, here is a dramatic shot by Ahmet taken a couple of days ago when it was sunny.

A Wren hopped around in the undergrowth near the Henry Moore sculpture.

The Coal Tit pair in the Flower Walk followed me the whole way along, flying down to my hand for pine nuts whenever there was a gap in the stream of larger birds.

A Blue Tit was flitting around impatiently in the forsythia at Mount Gate.

Great Tits came out in the cherry blossom in the Rose Garden.

The Little Owl at the Ranger's Cottage looked down from the edge of his hole, though the light was so poor that it was impossible to get a picture to do him justice.

The male Peregrine was on the corner of the tower, not a place he usually goes. It gives him a view down two sides of the building in case an unwary Feral Pigeon should be passing below.

A Wood Pigeon was eating leaf buds in a tree beside the Serpentine. They are full of sweet sap and the birds are very keen on them, but don't eat enough to do much harm to the tree -- unlike Rose-Ringed Parakeets, a few of which can completely wreck it with their wasteful eating habits.

Parakeets were wandering around Buck Hill eating new dandelion leaves, and there was a Stock Dove among them which seemed to be doing the same, though the picture shows it holding a small white object.

A Cormorant caught a roach under the parapet of the Italian Garden.

A Grey Heron came in to land next to it, to the Cormorant's annoyance.

The Mandarin pair had come down from the Round Pond and could be seen at the Vista.