A Wren preened in a bush in the Dell.
When it paused to call, you could see from its yellow gape that it was a young one.
I was reminded of Edward Lear's limerick and picture:
There was an Old Man who said, 'Hush!I perceive a young bird in this bush!'
When they said, 'Is it small?'He replied, 'Not at all!
It is four times as big as the bush!'
The young Robin in the Flower Walk foraged in a flower bed.
A Long-Tailed Tit looked for insects in a hawthorn near the Buck Hill shelter.
The female Little Owl at the Serpentine Gallery perched in her favourite place in the lime tree as the branches swayed in the breeze.
The female owlet was in the chestnut next to the nest tree.
A Magpie sunbathed on the ground below.
Only one of the usual Jays turned up, but it chased me all along the path to the Vista demanding peanuts, which it cached to eat later.
The tatty Black-Headed Gull was still alone at Fisherman's Keep.
The Grey Heron in the Italian Garden was fishing in a pool as usual. I missed it yesterday, as it had been chasing two other herons away from its territory.
This Cormorant is also a regular occupant. They keep to different pools and don't disturb each other.
After Duncan Campbell reported a third Moorhen chick at Peter Pan I went looking for it, but it must have been lurking and I only found two.
The two young Egyptian Geese and the two young Mandarins were together with their mothers at the Vista.
The six little Egyptians at the boathouse are now large enough to be out of danger from the Herring Gull that was hanging around.
The Pochard and her teenager could be seen distantly from the Italian Garden.
A Painted Lady butterfly perched on a wilted oxeye daisy behind the Lido, obligingly providing a background of cornflowers and scabious.
A Comma butterfly on the railings at Mount Gate is always the same one, feeding on the yellow blossom of the hypericum bush.
The little florets at the centre of helenium flowers were keeping Honeybees busy in the Rose Garden.
Lovely illustration and funny limerick! Although I suspect a Wren that size would very happily take anyone's head clean off.
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Edward Lear was a great painter of birds and beasts when he was being serious, and his absurd pictures of birds are always spot-on. To do a cartoon Wren takes talent, but to add a man who looks like a Wren is a stroke of genius.
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