Canada Geese reunited

A Goldcrest sang in a yew tree near Peter Pan.

A Jay ...

... and a Coal Tit arrived to be fed near the Serpentine Gallery. Neither has yet started coming to my hand, making feeding an uncertain business with Carrion Crows ranging over the ground.

The Blue Tits in the cedar on the north side of the Rose Garden are now completely confident.

Long-Tailed Tits take no notice of people, apart from one maverick in St James's Park which Mark Williams won over with bits of suet. This is one of a pair nesting by the Vista.

Both the pair of Robins at Mount Gate came out together, so it seems that the female hasn't started nesting yet. This is her mate.

The female Grey Wagtail hunted along the edge of the lake by the Dell restaurant, skirting an Egyptian Goose which has somehow managed to keep two goslings despite this being the heart of Pigeon Eater's territory.

The wagtail was constantly finding little larve and wormlike creatures in the debris at the water's edge.

Pigeon Eater and his mate were a few yards away, eyeing a Coot which was trying to keep its nest under the restaurant balcony intact in the waves. Recent strong winds have already washed it away once.

An anoymous contributor sent a picture of a young Herring Gull looking under the edge of a piece of newly laid turf. Crows routinely lift the turf, to the annoyance of the workmen laying it, but I haven't seen a gull doing it before. Either it has learnt from watching the crows, or the crow had previously pulled up tehturf and the gull was giving it a second check.

One of the young Grey Herons newly down from the second nest on the island is already starting to look for fish. The three are probably still being fed by their parents when they return to the nest, but are soon going to face the hard transition to independent life.

The pair of Great Crested Grebes often seen at Fisherman's Keep are enormously affectionate even by grebe standards, pausing for a display every few minutes.

A Mute Swan splashed down on the Serpentine, waterskiing to break the impact.

Swans have started nesting on the gravel strip on the Long Water, though the site isn't yet continuously occupied. This is good news for the Canada Geese on the swan nesting island, which might otherwise have been driven off. The Canadas in this picture are a different pair, just resting on the gravel. Once the swans get going they won't be tolerated here.

The female of this pair of Canadas was bitten by a dog last month and has been nursed back to health by Jenna. Now the pair are happily reunited on the lake and have claimed the Mute Swan nesting basket by the Triangle (which no swan has ever looked at). A pair of Coots started nesting there earlier, but so far the two pairs are tolerating each other.

The Egyptian family at the Lido had been for an expedition on the lake and were bringing their five goslings home.

Honeybees have appeared in the Rose Garden. One fed on a pansy.

But the commonest bees at present are still Hairy-Footed Flower Bees, which are everywhere.