A very late grebe nest?

There is a new Great Crested Grebes' nest on the Long Water. Even by grebe standards this is very late in the year, and they may not be serious about it. But, living on fish, they are more independent of the seasons than many birds.

The three chicks from the previous Long Water nest were out on the Serpentine with their parents.

One of the three Little Grebe chicks on the Long Water preened under the willow by the bridge.

It already has flight feathers.

Another was being fed.

The Egyptian Geese in the Italian Garden had occupied the Coots' nest again.

Cormorants shone in the sunlight on a fallen tree at the Peter Pan waterfront.

A Black-Headed Gull at Fisherman's Keep ate a bit of mango from a fruit salad that someone had thrown to it. It seemed to enjoy this unusual snack.

The female Little Owl at the Serpentine Gallery came out late in the afternoon and peered down over a branch of the plane tree.

The Coal Tit pair in the Dell were chasing each other through the corkscrew hazel. This is the male ...

... and this is the female with a little white patch over her eye.

Ahmet Amerikali found a Goldcrest here ...

... and a Wren by the Buck Hill shelter, where they are often heard but seldom seen.

Migrant Hawker dragonflies mated on a reed by the bridge.

A Common Drone Fly on a strawflower in the Rose Garden had a retinue of tiny bugs.

When I photographed this small wasp on on a Michaelmas daisy I thought it was an Ornate-Tailed Digger Wasp, Cerceris rybyensis, but the pattern on its abdomen doesn't match. I can't find any pictures of wasps with this narrow orange stripe on the black and yellow pattern.

A tiny Common Zebra Spider, Salticus scenicus, wandered over a notice at the Lido restaurant.