Hesitant Coal Tit

A Coal Tit in a big holly tree at Temple Gate was hesistant about coming to take a pine nut from my hand. After I filmed it, the tiny bird plucked up courage and came down. One they realise it's safe they are unstoppable, and follow you taking pine nuts all the way.

A young Robin in speckled juvenile plumage was in the same tree.

A Wren at the northwest corner of the bridge had caught a grasshopper on Buck Hill and was bringing it  to its nest.

A Long-Tailed Tit family ranged through the bushes at Mount Gate.

A young Great Tit in the bushes beside the Henry Moore sculpture fluttered its wings to encourage its parents to feed it.

There's always a Chiffchaff singing here, but it stays in the treetops hidden in the leaves. However, Ahmet Amerikali got a closer shot of one in Battersea Park.

He also captured a Reed Warbler by the Diana fountain ...

... and I found one in a willow near the Italian Garden.

A longer video of the familiar Song Thrush in the leaf yard giving us his best performance.

Another view of the very confident male Pied Wagtail hunting along the north shore of the Serpentine. 

Pigeon Eater, in his usual place on the Dell restaurant roof, was looking a bit worn about the face, evidently from plunging his beak into the innards of pigeons.

A Grey Heron stared down at a gap in the algae covering a pond in the Italian Garden, waiting for an incautious fish to cross it.

A Coot chick on a nest opposite Peter Pan was annoyed by a Great Crested Grebe looking for fish among the submerged twigs.

The Black Swan came ashore to stretch and flap.

The Mute Swans with five cygnets were on the edge of the Dell restaurant terrace, safely out of the Black Swan's territory. Recently they have been coming up the lake as far as the island. We just have to hope that the two families don't clash.

A Painted Lady butterfly perched on an oxeye daisy.

A very sophisticated red rose in the Rose Garden is of no use to the bees as they can't get into it. But they are crowding into the simple single open roses.

They also like the the cornflowers at the back of the Lido.