Young Long-Tailed Tits and Mandarin ducklings

The Long-Tailed Tits nesting at the southeast corner of the leaf yard have brought out their young, and the bushes were a busy scene as they all dashed about.

Blue Tits are nesting in a cleft in the trunk of the huge Caucasian Elm in the Rose Garden.

A Coal Tit in the Dell enjoyed a pine nut, carefully eating it in little bits.

A Song Thrush near Peter Pan was carrying a large chunk of nesting material. Heaven knows how they manage to fly and land when they can't see out the front.

One of the two young Grey Wagtails was being fed by a parent on the edge of the Lido restaurant terrace.

The male Robin at Mount Gate came out from under a bush.

A male Chaffinch demanded a pine nut near the Serpentine Gallery.

A Carrion Crow had a good try at looking sweet in hawthorn blossom.

Ahmet Amerikali got a fine close-up shot of a Reed Warbler in the reeds by the Diana fountain.

A young Grey Heron stared into the Dell stream as a carp surfaced.

The heron sitting at the east end of the island looked up from the nest.

The Great Crested Grebes' nest below remains improbably intact.

The four Coot chicks in the lake under the Italian Garden are quite large now and mostly feeding themselves, though a parent will occasionally offer one a strand of algae.

The Mandarin pair on the Long Water have brought out three ducklings, though there was only a distant view of them across the Vista.

A pair of Egyptian Geese by the boathouses have produced twelve goslings.

The male Mute Swan 4FYY guarded the nest in the reeds east of the Lido as the female 4FUF came out to feed.

A Small White butterfly perched on a bramble leaf near the Italian Garden.

A Buff-Tailed Bumblebee browsed on Mexican Orange Blossom at the bridge.