There are two Little owlets at the Serpentine Gallery. Hao Zhang saw them together. I got a picture of one of them in the sweet chestnut tree ...
... and later their mother in the distant lime tree where the parents are staying during the daytime.
There was a family of Song Thrushes behind the Queen's Temple. This is one of the young ones.
An adult by the Speke obelisk was carrying an unidentified and gruesome object.
A Pied Wagtail ...
... and a Grey Wagtail were hunting insects on the debris blown into the corner of the lake by the Dell restaurant.
The three young Grey Herons in the nest at the east end of the Serpentine island were exercising their wings in preparation for their first flight.
The Great Crested Grebe at the island sat peacefully on her nest. She didn't get up, so I couldn't see whether she has laid another egg.
The Coots in the fountain pool in the Italian Garden were feeding their three chicks on the nest.
The Mute Swan 4GIQ's original mate came over to help look after the hybrid cygnet. He doesn't seem to mind that it isn't his, and the Black Swan is not taking much notice of them. I was told that he used to have the plastic ring 4FUM, but the glue failed and it fell off, so now he has only a metal ring.
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The Pochard and her duckling came over to the Vista ...
... where a female Gadwall was having a brisk wash ...
... and flap.
A Comma butterfly perched in hypericum blossom at Mount Gate.
There was nothing unusual in the Rose Garden, but hordes of Buff-Tailed Bumblebees are still busy on the patches of stachys.
Ahmet Amerikali was at Rainham Marshes, where he got pictures of an Avocet ...
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... and a female Linnet ...
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... and the famous Cuckoo almost got away from him.
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Hi Ralph, Handel eh ?.. true culture ??... Today I actually found a wild flower book in a charity shop for £2 ..(Collins).. so, that will do nicely..I also have plantnet, but have not come across Google lens before..nice to see some juvenile athene noctua..regards,Stephen..
ReplyDeleteGoogle Lens is a standard Google service, and on an Android phone has a sub- icon in the main Google icon that the phone comes with. It's quite good at plants, though not up to PlantNet here, and surprising good on insects. There is an iPhone equivalent called Lens, but I would nver touch anything made by Apple so I don't know if it's any good. I believe it has advertisements, which Google Lens does not. For all the faults of Google, it is not as nakedly grasping as Apple, and indeed you are seeing this gratifying ad-free blog through its auspices.
ReplyDeleteHi again ralph, thank you for your very detailed explanation of Google lens and it's features, I concur with you RE. Apple products.. I am a big fan of plant net...thanks again..PS, saw a red kite this evening..( to confirm,, I am in Cheshire and NOT London !)..regards,Stephen..
ReplyDeleteI have actually seen a Red Kite sveral times from the park, always to north of Kensington nGardens as if it had flown down the M40, which it probably had as they consider the motorway a roadkill restaurant.
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