The Grey Wagtails nesting at the Triangle have two young, which they brought over to the other side of the lake while they caught insects for them. Here are the two with their father on the empty swan nesting basket near the Lido restaurant terrace.
They were being fed at the landing stage by the Diana fountain and on the nearby shore.
The Pied Wagtails were also collecting insects for their young at Fisherman's Keep. The female had a good haul of midges ...
... but the male had only just flown in and didn't have any yet. They aren't hunting for the young Pied Wagtail we've seen, as this is older and already independent, so there are two broods on the Serpentine.
Swifts screamed as they caught midges above Knightsbridge. The two buildings are the Mandarin Oriental Hotel and the Park Tower Hotel.
I hadn't seen the Coal Tit pair in the Dell for a while, though loud squeaks from the yew tree at the southeast corner showed that they were both there. Today one noticed me and came down for some pine nuts.
This tatty Blue Tit is the one in the Rose Garden that goes mad with impatience when I'm trying to photograph it, flying about and landing on the camera.
A Great Tit hung from a cabbage palm leaf above an allium flower.
It's time to have another picture of the familiar male Robin at Mount Gate.
One of the three young Grey Herons in the third nest on the island had climbed to the top of the tree.
A heron used a duckboard in the Italian Garden fountains as a fishing station.
A pair of Great Crested Grebes rested near the Triangle.
A pair of Coots insist on making a nest in an exposed place on the edge of the Serpentine. A crack in the concrete makes a place to anchor the nest tenuously but it keeps getting washed away, after which the stubborn birds rebuild it. Nothing will come of this vain effort.
A pair of Egyptian Geese near the island had eight young only a few days old.
The Canadas with their three goslings rested on the grass east of the Lido.
The Gadwall x Mallard hybrid drake cruised past the Vista. Slightly raised wings show that he has blue secondaries like a Mallard, not white like a Gadwall.
A Buff-Tailed Bumblebee browsed on catmint by the Diana fountain.
There is something so almost chibi-like in young wagtails. Besides, they're uncommonly pretty,
ReplyDeleteNow I remember: is the tatty impatient Blue Tit the same tatty Blue Tit from last summer?
Tinúviel
It's the slight fluffiness that makes them so charming.
DeleteLast year's tatty Blue Tit was in the Flower Walk, if I remember rightly. They do have a tendency to get threadbare, more so than other tits.