Three Pied Wagtails

Three Pied Wagtails were hunting along the edge of the Serpentine at Fisherman's Keep, the familiar old male ...

... another male ...

... and a young one, still in pale juvenile colours but well able to hunt for itself, which was having a wash.

The male Little Owl at the Serpentine Gallery was in the same place as yesterday in the lime tree ...

... but the female owlet had moved to the plane tree. Those were the only ones I could see.

As usual, the Jays turned up for their issue of peanuts.

A parakeet feeder beside the Long Water turned his back on his basket of food, and a Feral Pigeon saw its chance.

The Great Crested Grebe nesting opposite Peter Pan was visited by a Wood Pigeon which had come down for a drink.

The three young Grey Herons at the east end of the island were milling around in the nest, but I haven't yet seen one climb out and start exploring.

The heron in the Italian Garden was fishing by a clump of purple loosestrife. This was planted deliberately for its ornamental value but it has now seeded itself all over the place. In the United States it's considered an invasive weed and attempts are made to exterminate it.

The Egyptian pair were at the edge of a pool. The male has now completely recovered and is no longer limping, and he jumped agilely on to the kerb.

A pair of Moorhens at the Peter Pan waterfront have just one chick, which they were feeding on a fallen tree.

A closer look at the chick. They are hatched in the same colours as adults, but later turn a drab brown for several months.

The Mute Swan 4DVZ took her cygnets on a begging expedition along the edge of the Dell restaurant terrace.

The teenage Mandarins were both at the Vista but wouldn't come together for a photograph. This is the female.

The Pochard and her teenager could be seen on the far side of the lake from Peter Pan.

A female Emperor dragonfly laying eggs on a patch of algae under the Italian Garden was buzzed by an inquisitive male Common Blue Damselfly.

Black-Tailed Skimmers mated on a dead hawthorn at the northwest corner of the bridge. They lay eggs in flight skimming over the water to deposit them, hence the name.