A beautiful sunny day, but no exciting visitors. The usual birds got on with their daily tasks. A Robin found a small larva in a flower bed.

Another sang in the car park near the Diana memorial fountain. You can just hear a rival replying from the next territory.

A Pied Wagtail perched on the roof of one of the boathouses and found a Black-Headed Gull staring at it ...

... so it flew to the other boathouse and looked for insects lurking between the tiles.

One of the regular Jays waited for its regular peanut.

A Magpie which had been washing in the lake dried itself and preened on a branch.

Another looked through the fence of the Lido restaurant, waiting for a table to become vacant.

The Grey Herons know when lunch is finishing and they have a chance to grab leftovers.

A Starling had the same idea in mind.

Probably the rarest birds in Central London: the hens at the allotment.

A solitary Common Gull stood on a buoy. Even in their preferred place, the Round Pond, there are only a few of them.

A Lesser Black-Backed Gull preened on a post under the bridge ...

... and on the other side a Pochard crossed the lake briskly, leaving quite a wake.

These mushrooms were growing in a ring, as various mushroom species do, but not usually in the middle of a bramble patch. Update: Mario thinks they are the wonderfully named Fool's Funnel (Clitocybe rivulosa).

Tom and I were investigating a flock of Long-Tailed Tits in the trees near the Queen's Temple.

We found some Greenfinches from the local family ...

...and with them was a male Brambling, only the second I've seen in the park.

Two Coal Tits flitted about in a cedar on the edge of the Rose Garden.

A Blue Tit posed prettily beside the Long Water ...

... and a Robin sat down comfortably on a twig.

A Grey Wagtail was back after several weeks' absence on the little pool at the top of the Dell waterfall. It caught an insect hovering near the edge.

Two Pied Wagtails ran around the edge of the Round Pond. It seems that the waves breaking over the edge leave little water creatures stranded for them to eat.

A Magpie near the Henry Moore sculpture dug a hole in the ground. It did eventually find something to eat at the bottom.

Starlings jumped around at the Lido restaurant.

Rose-Ringed Parakeets lined up on the railings at Peter Pan.

The pigeon-eating Lesser Black-Backed Gull looked bored.

A young Herring Gull examined a packet of Haribo Starmix.

The Black Swan was back on the Serpentine.

The odd trio of ducks swam around in the Italian Garden ...

... and a Gadwall dabbled in the air bubbler in the lake below, which brings up edible creatures.

A bracket fungus on a dead tree on Buck Hill. It seems too yellow to be an Oyster Mushroom.

It was a windy day, and a Wood Pigeon had to hang on tight to eat holly berries ...

... but the sunshine was warm enough for Feral Pigeons to bask in the shelter of the Dell.

As the supply of insects dwindles, the small birds are getting hungrier. A lot of Great Tits flew out to be fed.

A little pool formed by a broken drain in the Dell is a favourite place for Carrion Crows to bathe and drink.

I wish the park hadn't been invaded by Rose-Ringed Parakeets, but people do enjoy feeding them.

A Magpie looked down disapprovingly.

Starlings foraged along the edge of the Serpentine ...

... and Moorhen looked for small edible creatures in a carpet of fallen leaves.

A Cormorant had to hold its wings horizontal and grip the edge of the post with its toes to avoid being blown off.

I hadn't seen this Black-Headed Gull, ring number EY63684, since 2017, though it has probably been coming to the Serpentine every autumn. It was ringed in Kensington Gardens by Roy Sanderson.

A Common Gull trotted along the edge of the Round Pond ...

... where the Black Swan was loitering stylishly.

Greylag Geese circled the Serpentine ...

... and came down to feed in the Diana fountain enclosure.

A Mute Swan was more than a match for this little dog allowed to harass the waterfowl by its stupid owner. If only it were always so.

This is the least seen of the three Bar Headed x Greylag Goose hybrids that visit from St James's Park. Its head markings are less clear than those of the other two.

A few more Shovellers have appeared on the Long Water, though we don't get nearly as many as we did a few years ago. This is probably due to the opening of the Wetland Centre and other wildfowl reserves along the Thames, which gives them a more agreeable habitat than a city lake.

A mild grey Sunday brought people to the Lido restaurant for the last time before our mad government imposes another destructive lockdown, and the Starlings took advantage of it.

With a lot of people in the park, there wasn't much to see in the way of small birds, but some reliable Great Tits appeared near the bridge ...

... a Chaffinch looked out from inside a holly tree ...

... and there was a Robin in the bushes behind the Big Bird statue.

A Rose-Ringed Parakeet looked very decorative in an American oak.

Long-Tailed Tits flew down the edge of the Long Water.

The male Peregrine was on the barracks tower again.

There was a brisk wind, and a Grey Heron stood in a streamlined posture.

Black-Headed Gulls like to gather on the handrail of the jetty at the Lido swimming area.

Cormorants stood on the ring of posts which is all that's left of the swans' nesting island on the Long Water, an uncomfortably small perch for their big feet. 

They fished under the marble fountain. Eventually one of them brought up a small fish along with a bunch of algae which it had to remove before swallowing the fish.

Two young Mute Swans took a dim view of the Cormorants coming so close, and shooed them away from time to time.

Another two on the Serpentine managed a short but controlled flight ...

... and came down without crashing.

The wildflower patch in the Rose Garden has been grubbed up, but some of the plants have seeded themselves in the lawn around and there were some clumps of flax with pretty blue flowers.