Long-Tailed Tits have become more visible as they finish looking after their young and join in the big flocks that sweep around the park in autumn and winter. They gathered at the Vista before crossing the gap together for safety in numbers.
Ahmet Amerikali found another one by the bridge ...
%202026%201a.jpg)
... and also a Reed Warbler picking an insect off a reed under the Italian Garden.
%202026%206a.jpg)
Pied Wagtails often run along the edge of the Lido restaurant terrace. Spilt food from the tables attracts insects.
A female Blackbird sunbathed near Temple Gate.
Both the female Little Owl ...
... and her daughter could be seen at different times in the big plane tree by the Serpentine Gallery.
The usual pair of Jays followed me down the edge of the Long Water taking peanuts on the way.
A Magpie east of the Lido looked hot and uncomfortable.
Two of the young Grey Herons were in the fifth nest while the third climbed up a branch above them.
A Cormorant shone in the sunlight at Peter Pan.
It's hard to see anything in the Great Crested Grebes' nest on the island, as it's in deep shade, but that looks like a chick poking its head out from its father's wing.
The family from the east end of the island were out on the water. A chick flapped its little wings.
The single chick on the north shore of the Serpentine begged incessantly until it was shut up with a fish.
The two Coot chicks in the southwest pool of the Italian Garden enjoyed having the nest to themselves.
The Black Swan mooched around peacefully enough with 4GIQ. He really has become much less aggressive.
A Red Admiral butterfly flitted restlessly about the sea lavender in the Rose Garden.
Wasps have made a nest in a hole in a tree stump on the busy path beside the Serpentine.
No one would look at those tiny wings and believe they'd eventually be able to fly. Even if they'd rather not!
ReplyDeleteMight it be that the Black Swan's aggressiveness may have been caused by picking up signals that the old Brute was on its way out?
Tinúviel
Grebe chicks' wings are better developed that those of many baby birds, as they have to use them as front legs for climbing on to their parents.
DeletePerhaps the lack of a serious enemy has mellowed the Black Swan, but he has also been saddened by the failure of his attempt at breeding.