Too tough even for a Wood Pigeon

A Wood Pigeon tried to eat withered fruit in a myrobalan tree at the Triangle, maybe left over from last year. A Wood Pigeon can eat most things but these leathery remains seemed too tough even for it.

The Great Tit nesting on the lamp post behind the Lido arrived with a caterpillar for the chicks.

A Robin looked out from pink hawthorn blossom in the Rose Garden.

The Huntress fountain in the Rose Garden, recently restored at huge expense with a new marble basin, will only run for a few days at a time before it gets blocked up with limescale from the hard London water. But it's working well enough now to give a Carrion Crow somewhere to refresh itself.

A crow at the Lido ate a piece of meat kindly provided by the mysterious visitor. I have seen him a couple of times but never spoken, and mostly you never see him at all.

A crow and a Grey Heron strutted down the edge of the Lido side by side, eyeing each other with hostility but not ready to start an actual fight.

A Jay waited at the Vista, one of my regular customers expecting peanuts. But if they start getting meat they'll scorn mere peanuts, as the crows are already beginning to do.

The Little Owl at the Serpentine Gallery was well hidden by leaves, and this feeble picture is the best shot I could manage from any angle.

The stranded young Black-Headed Gull was in its usual place at Fisherman's Keep catching midges.

A Coot had started a nest in an even sillier place than usual, on the bare edge of the lake at the Triangle. When the nesting instinct takles hold of them they are unstoppbale.

The ill-fated nest on the post at Peter Pan has been restarted -- as Dr Johnson said when a friend married for the second time, the triumph of hope over experience.

The Mute Swan 4DTT seemed finally settled on her nest on the gravel strip on the Long Water, but it's not certain yet whether she's established and sitting on eggs.

The same with 4FUF in the reeds east of the Lido. It's been a long on-and-off affair in both places.

At least the Egyptian Geese with six teenagers have done everything right, and have reaped the reward for their care. Their mother is still keeping watch looking for approaching dogs, as they are only beginning to fly.

Two Mandarin drakes could be seen at the Vista. I haven't seen the female with the ducklings again but this is not necessarily a bad sign, as these ducks spend a lot of time ashore hidden in the undergrowth.

A Mallard drake preened his smart feathers on a post by the island.

The individual florets in the big round heads of the allium flowers in the Rose Garden provide plenty of nectar for Buff-Tailed Bumblebees, which range over the flowers taking a brief drink from each one.