It was a day of hail, thunder and wind with sunny intervals. A pair of Gadwalls on the Serpentine endured a hailstorm.
A Carrion Crow drank from a puddle.
The Egyptian Geese at the Triangle managed to prevent one of their twelve goslings from being carried off by a crow, bit it was a near escape.
The Canada goslings were being closely guarded. Even in a gaggle of geese with no goslings there's always one keeping a lookout for danger.
The Blue Tits' nest in the Caucasian Elm in the Rose Garden was constantly visited by parents, and one of the chicks came into view.
A Blue Tit collected fluff for a nest lining from a pussy willow in the Diana fountain reed bed.
The small birds were hungry again on a raw day. A Blue Tit appealed from the lawn in the Rose Garden ...
... and a Great Tit stared from the hawthorn tree above it.
The Coal Tits in the Dell were also wanting pine nuts.
A female Pied Wagtail hunted on the edge of the Serpentine at the Lido ...
... and the young one was on a buoy, but they were taking no notice of each other and it's clear that the young bird is independent now.
A female Blackbird foraged in the scrubby patch east of the Lido.
A Grey Heron perched on a bench at the Triangle ...
... and was scolded by an angry Wren in the bushes behind.
I couldn't find the Mandarin ducklings on the Long Water, but three drakes were visible. Two came over to the Vista beside the Gadwall x Mallard hybrid drake.
On the far side of the Vista the Mute Swans 4HDW and 4DTT were back at their nest on the gravel strip, but they still haven't settled down there.
However, it does look as if 4FUF is sitting in earnest in the reeds east of the Vista.
That looks like such awkward drinking from the Crow. The chick ran straight into the Crows jaws! A lucky escape indeed.
ReplyDeleteSean
What a dramatic video. It was a miracle that the little one survived. The parents were initially negligent, but they launched a perfect counterattack. Poor things sounded so anguished.
ReplyDeleteHere are some suitably aggressive ducks who managed to make a full grown man run away at a Moscow park.
https://x.com/BrianMcDonaldIE/status/2054645156565889169
Tinúviel
The Moscow bird looks like a Ruddy Shelduck, a close relative of the Egyptian Goose. Neither of these are really in the duck or goose camp but intermediate, having some features of both. I can believe that an Egyptian would chase a human in the same circumstances.
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