The male Little Owlet at the Serpentine Gallery looked down from a lime tree ...
... and his father was in another. The grandfather, who nested here until last year, was a tiny owl with tremendous eyebrows, and these show in his male descendants.
A family of Chiffchaffs flew around in the Flower Walk. This is one of the parents in a magnolia, looking worn after raising the young ones.
A Long-Tailed Tit perched on the top of the corkscrew hazel bush.
A Wood Pigeon bathed in the Serpentine, taking care not to get out of its depth. Unlike Feral Pigeons, they can't take off from water and if they find themselves afloat they have to row laboriously ashore with the wrist joints on their wings.
A Grey Heron stood on an ivy-wrapped dead branch beside the Long Water.
A young Black-Headed Gull played with a grass stem on a post at Peter Pan.
There's no progress at the Great Crested Grebes' nest at the Dell restaurant, but it's been reported that all three chicks are all right and there is still one more egg. All was quiet when I was there and I could only see one chick.
The Coot nesting at the bridge, whose first chick was taken by Pigeon Eater, now has another.
Sad to say, the Mute Swan 4DTT on the Long Water has lost one of her two cygnets. The survivor was with her at Peter Pan, flapping its tiny wings.
The Tufted ducklings dived busily at Fisheman's Keep, picking up strands of alage and any small water creatures they find.
The first Willow Emerald damselflies have appeared, and there were four pairs at the bridge.
A Red-Veined Darter dragonfly perched on a dry grass stem beside the Round Pond.
A Buff-Tailed Bumblebee worked over a zinnia in the Rose Garden.
There were plenty of butterflies here. A Painted Lady fed on a Verbena bonariensis flower ...
... and a Red Admiral on sea lavender ...
... where there was also a Comma.
A Small White was on another verbena flower ...
... and a Meadow Brown on Black-Eyed Susan.
Another Red Admiral perched on printed water mint on a notice beside the Long Water.































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