Impatient Robin

The female Robin at Mount Gate expected to be given some pine nuts, and was slightly annoyed when I filmed her instead. Of course she got her reward immediately afterwards.

Long-Tailed Tits searched for leaf miner moth caterpillars in the badly damaged leaves of a horse chestnut in the Flower Walk.

Blackcaps are very shy and hard to photograph, so it was pleasing to get a picture of a female at the southwest corner of the bridge ...

... and Ahmet Amerikali found another near the Italian Garden.

He also photographed a Chiffchaff in the trees east of the Lido, evidently a young one as it was begging and fluttering its wings.

The male Little Owl at the Serpentine Gallery was back in his usual lime tree after several days' absence.

The male owlet was in the big plane tree ...

... and three hours later his sister appeared in the same tree.

Both the Peregrines were on the tower, but by the time I got round to it the male had flown off. The female was preening.

This isn't a good video, as I couldn't get near the swan nesting raft at the Lido restaurant and had to stretch awkwardly over the fence. But it does show two young Grey Wagtails and a parent -- the one on the far right. This is the second time the pair has bred this year.

The young Grey Herons in the fifth nest have started climbing around, and two of them could be seen in the branches above the nest.

The heron in the Italian Garden was standing on the edge of the northwest pool. It saw a fish, dived in, and missed it. Here it is crossly swimming back to a place where it could get its feet on the ground.

At least it was leaving the Coots' nest in the southwest pool alone, and the Coots reclaimed it.

They had also been troubled by the local Cormorant, but it too crossed to the pool on the other side.

It's too early to get up hopes, but the Great Crested Grebe on the nest on the island was sitting with his wings raised, and it's possible that he was sheltering a chick.

The pair at the east end of the island were out with their chicks on the water.

The Egyptian Geese at Fisherman's Keep still have their four goslings. The mother is vigilant and the goslings are keeping close to her, which is far from always the case.

A Ruddy Darter dragonfly perched on a yucca leaf in the Dell.