Three Little Owls were visible at the Serpentine Gallery: the father in the lime tree where his mate usually goes ...
... his mate in the lime where he usually perches ...
... and the female owlet in the chestnut.
A young Jay in a holly tree in the Flower Walk called for its parents to feed it.
One of the parents applied for a peanut.
I hadn't seen any Jackdaws for several days, but a visit to the Round Pond produced some, all eager for peanuts.
One of the Great Tits in the yew in the Dell ate a pine nut.
The Grey Heron in the Italian Garden hijacked a Coots' nest to pick insects out of it. The Coots and their two chicks just had to wait at the edge of the pool till it's finished.
The Coots on the nest at the bridge changed places ...
... and so did the Great Crested Grebes on the island.
Julia filmed the Mandarin mother on the Round Pond sheltering her eleven ducklings from the stiff breeze. This was on Monday, but when I visited today Thursday she still had eleven.
Ten of them were with her or reasonably near, but the eleventh had wandered off round the edge of the pond. Mandarin duckings do have a tendency to stray.
The Tufted Duck mother supervised her eight ducklings as they dived busily by the boat hire platform.
The Canada Geese on the Long Water were trying out their newly regrown flight feathers, and charged down the lake in a mob.
A fox at the Vista stared gravely at a crowd of visitors who were taking pictures of it.
There were a lot of Emperor and Lesser Emperor dragonflies at the Italian Garden. A male Emperor rested on an iris leaf ...
... while a female was laying eggs.
Two Honeybees worked over a sunflower in the Rose Garden.
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