Young Mistle Thrush

Mistle Thrushes have been very scarce in the park this year, so it was good to find that they have managed to breed. Theodore filmed this young one in a bird cherry tree.

Two Great Tit fledglings in the Dell begged their father to feed them.

A family of Long-Tailed Tits flitted around in the bushes at the southwest corner of the bridge. I only managed to get a picture of an adult.

A Jay at Mount Gate posed in front of a hypericum bush.

The male Little Owl at the Serpentine Gallery peeped out from the lime tree.

A Pied Wagtail was collecting insects on the lawn in the Rose Garden.

A Grey Wagtail hunting from the posts at Peter Pan ...

... flew over to perch above the Coots' nest.

The Coots in the Italian Garden were feeding their chicks.

A Coot has built a nest right in the middle of the Long Water. It must be supported on something, maybe a waterlogged fallen branch. Toward the end of the clip you can hear a Marsh Frog croaking in the reed bed next to the Vista.

Here is a better recording of the Marsh Frog. I was alerted to their presence yesterday by Jamie C, and was surprised as I'd never had a report of one before, although I did once find a dead Common Frog which had been dropped by a Grey Heron near the Ranger's Lodge garden.

Grey Herons perched one above the other in a fallen tree on the Long Water by the bridge.

Ahmet Amerikali got a fine shot of one catching a carp in the Italian Garden.

A Greylag Goose ate weeds growing at the edge by the Dell restaurant.

The two Mandarin ducklings on the lake have now passed the most dangerous stage and have a good chance of survival. Here they are eating algae on the edge of the Serpentine by the landing stage.

The hybrid Black x Mute cygnet was also here, with its mother 4GIQ keeping an eye on it. The Black Swan was still on the raft.

A Small White butterfly drank nectar on a bramble flower by the leaf yard.

A worker Honeybee filled her pollen baskets on a Shasta daisy in the Rose Garden.

Repairs to the bridge are finally nearing completion, and the new balustrade is in place. It's been two and a half years since the car crash that brought it down.