Robin success

The Robin pair at Mount Gate have at least one fledgling out of the nest, though I haven't yet got a picture of it as it kept lurking behind plants. There may have been a predator overhead, as its father was looking up nervously from the railings.

There was a Jay in a nearby tree, but the Robins seem calm about those and it wasn't looking that way.

A pair of Long-Tailed Tits bounced around in the bushes.

Most of the nest boxes in Kensington Gardens are 30 years old and haven't been cleaned or repaired for a very long time, but the tits are still using them. A Great Tit looked out of a box near the Henry Moore sculpture.

A ginger Feral Pigeon by the Italian Garden had an odd hooked beak, giving it a predatory look.

The Little Owl at the Serpentine Gallery was in his usual lime tree, and as usual hard to see through the leaves.

A Grey Heron stalked up and down the edge of the Dell restaurant terrace, hoping to be thrown a snack ...

... but it was Pigeon Eater who got the tortilla chips.

A Moorhen ate spilt soft ice cream.

The Great Crested Grebes' nest on the chain at the island is still intact, though an easterly wind makes a moored boat drift up against it -- fortunately not quite so far as to knock it over.

A grebe approached the Mute Swan 4GIQ's nesting basket to exchange hostile glances with the Coot. The swans have already brought down some of the flimsy side of the basket and it won't last long.

After weeks of shilly-shallying a pair of Mute Swans has finally settled down on the nest basket east of the Lido, which is even more broken though you can't see this through the reeds. The male was patrolling the water as the female sat on her eggs.

There is also a pair of swans nesting in the reeds under the Italian Garden. There is no good view of the site from any angle. One of the local Coot pair approached the male officiously and was sent packing.

The four Egyptian goslings at the Triangle are hanging on and beginning to grow.

A Mandarin drake rested on the rock in the Dell stream.

A fox was asleep in the long grass south of the Vista.

In the Rose Garden a Buff-Tailed Bumblebee revolved ecstatically in a pink rugosa rose. The dull thump from the Bluetooth speakers of the nearby rollerbladers suits the performance in a way, so I haven't edited it off.

A Harlequin Ladybird was in another rose looking for greenfly, though it had missed the one at the top left of the picture.