A Greenfinch beside the Long Water sang its gentle chattering and wheezing song, with more melodious contributions from a Robin.

A Robin on the other side of the lake enjoyed the sunshine.

On the ground below, a Chaffinch had found some unidentifiable but edible object.

A Starling on its own in a nearby tree sang quietly to itself.

A Goldcrest hung from a twig in the Rose Garden.

A pair of Rose-Ringed Parakeets canoodled.

Young Black-Headed Gulls chased another that had won a bit of bread.

There was no visible activity in the two Grey Heron nests. The teenage heron, the only one that has not been involved in nesting, stood on a boathouse roof, ruffled by the breeze.

On the south side of the island the Egyptian Geese seem to have permanent possession of a heron nest. Not sure whether they will try to breed there. Tree holes are more their thing, and there are plenty of them.

The Black Swan and a Carrion Crow wondered which one was blacker.

The dominant Mute Swan at the west end of the Serpentine was bullying the others as usual.

The three teenage swans rested on the nesting island on the Long Water. It's their last few days of peace before their parents start nesting and throw them out.

A Great Crested Grebe rested under the willow near the bridge.

The Coots' nest on the invisible submerged branch is getting larger by the day.

In the Rose Garden, a Honeybee ...

... and a Buff-Tailed Bumblebee browsed in a patch of hellebore.

A chick has now hatched in the Grey Herons' nest at the west end of the island. There was a faint clattering sound, not audible in this video, of the tiny creature clacking its bill, begging for food. It was low in the nest and not visible. A parent arrived to relieve the other one, which flew off. The adult regurgitated a fish, mashed it up in its gizzard, and fed the resulting mush to the chick.

In the other nest, a parent flew off to get more food for the permanently hungry half-grown chick.

The island is a noisy place. A pair of Black-Headed Gulls screaming affectionately at each other were drowned out by two pairs of Canada Geese loudly objecting to the other's presence.

A Common Gull on a buoy at the Lido stretched ...

... overbalanced ...

... and fell off.

There were two Grey Wagtails, first in Kensington Gardens then in Hyde Park at the Serpentine outflow, near the place in the Dell where they usually nest. One found a small worm in a fallen catkin.

A Pied Wagtail hunted in the enclosure of the Diana fountain.

A Long-Tailed Tit by the Long Water collected spider web for its nest.

A Song Thrush scolded a Jay that had come near its nest site, which is probably inside a holly tree on the west side of the Long Water a short way south of the Vista.

There was a Great Spotted Woodpecker on the other side of the lake, in a tree where they are often seen and will probably nest.

A Chaffinch perched on a twig near the Henry Moore sculpture.

A Magpie rested on the branch of a small oak tree. Young oaks retain their leaves in winter, older ones drop them.

The dominant male Mute Swan on the Long Water ignored his personal island and sat in the reeds.

Joan Chatterley was in Battersea Park, where there were ten Mandarin drakes (eight in her picture) and a solitary female. It seems odd that the sex ratio of Mandarins is so unbalanced when the females nest in tree holes where they are fairly safe from predators.

She also saw two very dark Mallard drakes, darker than the three we have in the park, which have white bibs.

Tom was at Rainham Marshes, where he got a good picture of a Chiffchaff.

I've seen a Chiffchaff near the bridge here, but couldn't get a picture.

A female Chaffinch preened in a holly tree near the bridge. She is one of a family of Chaffinches here.

A male was preening in the same tree, looking very ruffled.

A Goldfinch looked down from a tree in Rutland Gate, just south of Hyde Park.

A Greenfinch appeared in the leaf yard ...

... along with a Nuthatch ...

... and a Great Spotted Woodpecker.

A Dunnock looked for insects in a flower bed in the Rose Garden.

A Pied Wagtail hunted in the enclosure of the Diana memorial fountain.

A Long-Tailed Tit perched in the corkscrew hazel in the Dell.

Wood Pigeons ate leaf buds in a bush in the Rose Garden. I think the bush is a honeysuckle, so perhaps the leaves have a sweet flavour.

The pigeon-eating Lesser Black-Backed Gull and his mate jerked their heads upwards at each other, the usual display between mates.

There were eight Lesser Black-Backs on the Long Water, an usually large number for the park where they are greatly outnumbered by Herring Gulls. This one looks quite like the pigeon eater, but is smaller.

The young Grey Heron is now left alone in the nest most of the time. Its parents must think it's big enough to be safe from Carrion Crows and large gulls.

One of the heron nests on the south side of the island has been stolen by a pair of Egyptian Geese.

The Black Swan was still obsessively following a male Mute Swan.

The female of the dominant pair of swans on the Long Water was on the nesting island, tolerating a pair of Greylag Geese. That will change when the pair start nesting.

The Coot in the isolated nest on the Long Water was poking around inside the nest as if there were already eggs. Impossible to tell, as you can't see into the nest from the shore.

A pair of Great Crested Grebes fancied a nest site between two wire baskets of plants at the edge of the island. However, a Coot had the same idea.

Two male Mute Swans at the island spun furiously to establish dominance. One of them won. This contest had been going on for two minutes before I started filming.

The Black Swan annoyed a Mute Swan on the Serpentine by following it too closely, and got chased off.

It went on to the Long Water and started pestering another swan.

The dominant swans on the Long Water have finally got the idea that the nesting island has been repaired for them. The male shooed the other birds off and posed defiantly. 

A Shoveller drake fed with his mate at an air bubbler, which brings up a lot of tiny creatures for the pair to eat. He saw another drake approaching and shooed him away.

The young Grey Heron on the island seems visibly larger each day.

The Common Gulls will be away soon. They arrive later than the Black-Headed Gulls and leave earlier.

A Blackbird looked soberly elegant on a tree near the leaf yard.

A Robin in the Rose Garden finished a worm, which it had cut into sections to make it easier to swallow. It flew on to a twig and sang a few phrases.

A Long-Tailed Tit looked down from a branch next to the feeder in the Dell.

The Long-Tailed Tits' nest in the Rose Garden is in one of two euonymus bushes. The other has Blue Tits nesting in it. One of them perched on a rose bush.

The Coal Tit near the Albert Memorial came to my hand to take a pine nut.

A Goldcrest looked for insects in a bush behind the Serpentine.

A Pied Wagtail was hunting in the Diana memorial enclosure.