A day of sunshine and showers, with a sharp wind getting up in the afternoon. A Great Tit in the Rose Garden ignored the November chill and sang from a bush.

The regular Grey Wagtail visited the Italian Garden ...

... and a Pied Wagtail ran along the shore at the Lido.

The Rose-Ringed Parakeets are fond of the fruit of these Japanese Crabapple trees near the bridge. They wait till it's ripe, but it still must be pretty sour compared to the apples the visitors give them.

Feral Pigeons showed no respect at all for the statue of the goddess Diana in the Rose Garden.

The male Peregrine was on the barracks tower, but flew off as I approached, so all I got was a distant shot.

The tower may be hideous, but its reflection makes a striped background for a Cormorant on the Long Water.

Another Cormorant dried its wings at the island.

A Grey Heron perched on a post near the bridge, keeping an eye on the wire baskets where there are always plenty of fish.

Black-Headed Gulls perched on a dead tree in the Long Water.

One of the teenage Great Crested Grebes surfaced near the Italian Garden.

The strong west wind made fair-sized waves at the east end of the Serpentine. A Moorhen was not troubled by them.

A flock of grazing Greylag Geese always appoints one member to keep a lookout while the others have their heads down.

A beautiful sunny cold day, but not much was going on. As usual, Long-Tailed Tits were on their endless search for insects ...

... and so was a Goldcrest in the Rose Garden. These tiny birds can only just avoid starvation through the winter, but a run of mild winters with little frost has allowed their numbers to increase.

A Wood Pigeon struggled for balance while eating holly berries.

After yesterday's murky image of a Jay in the afternoon gloom, a good bright picture from Neil.

Another of Neil's pictures. Rose-Ringed Parakeets may be a serious pest, but they are very fine looking creatures.

Yes, we've had a lot of videos of Pied Wagtails recently and probably you're getting bored with them. But they are such pretty little birds and look so good against a background of autumn leaves that I can't resist filming them.

The odd couple of a Lesser Black-Backed Gull and a Herring Gull strutted around together, moaned affectionately at each other, and toyed with a twig at the Lido. Very closely related species, they can have fertile offspring, and possibly some of what seem to be very light-coloured Lesser Black-Backs are actually hybrids.

A Lesser Black-Back stared down from an urn in the Italian Garden.

The Black-Headed Gull with the plastic ring 28P1 did its best to conceal its identity ...

... but the ring could be read through the water.

When a Grey Heron is stands patiently in one place for a long time, it usually has something in mind. This one at the Henry Moore sculpture is waiting for a rat to look out from the hedge ...

... and this one on the small willow at the Triangle car park is waiting for a human to turn up and start chucking bits of bread about -- which happens a lot there as people are too idle to walk any distance along the shore.

A Cormorant shone in the sunlight at Peter Pan.

The two youngest Great Crested Grebe teenagers, hatched in late summer on the Long Water, fish together. This increases their chance of a catch, since a fish frightened by one may flee towards the other. They are still not catching much, but seem to be in perfectly good shape and I think they have turned the corner to survival.

An adult in the evening light.

The dominant male Mute Swan at the east end of the Serpentine was amusing himself by beating up the other swans.

A pair of Gadwalls browsed peacefully at the Lido.

A Wood Pigeon ate ivy berries at the back of the Lido. The ivy has only just finished flowering and the berries are undeveloped and hard, but Wood Pigeons seem to be able to eat practically anything, no matter how sour, bitter and tough.

One of the Grey Wagtails was on the edge of the drained pool in the Dell.

It flew out to the lake. This one prefers the east end of the Serpentine, the other the Long Water and the Italian Garden.

A male Pied Wagtail ...

... and his mate hunted on the lawn east of the Dell.

A Long-Tailed Tit perched in a tree beside the Long Water.

Neil found a Coal Tit next to the West Carriage Drive. I have several times heard one singing near the Rima relief not far away.

Ahmet Amerikali sent a picture of a Goldcrest in a yew tree near the bridge.

The familiar Robin looked out from a bush in the Rose Garden.

It was a dark and misty day. By 2.30 it was nearly impossible to take pictures, but I just managed one of a Jay in the Flower Walk waiting for its customary peanut.

A Grey Heron stared intently at the camera.

A young Herring Gull had a vigorous wash on the Serpentine.

The pigeon-eating Lesser Black-Backed Gull was in his usual place near the Dell restaurant. A man pointed him out to his small son, 'Look at the big duck.' The gull gave him a look of withering contempt ...

... and went off to soothe his ruffled feelings by chasing away some Herring Gulls.

It was the turn of a Common Gull to stand on the No Swimming sign.

Another picture from Ahmet, taken in yesterday's sunshine: a Cormorant caught a small carp in the Italian Garden and detached the weed from it before swallowing it.

One of the two Great Crested Grebe teenager preened on the Long Water. Both still seem to be coping with independent life.

There was a tidy little flock of Tufted Ducks at the island.

A Great Spotted Woodpecker searched for insects in the bark of a plane tree near the Albert Memorial.

A Blackbird ate rowan fruit on Buck Hill. There's still no sign of migrant Mistle Thrushes or Redwings here.

A Great Tit, Blue Tit and Long-Tailed Tit hunted for insects in a nearby tree.

Another flock of Long-Tailed Tits (or perhaps the same one seen at a different time) worked down the south shore of the Serpentine ...

... and the east shore of the Long Water.

A Chiffchaff tagged along with the flock.

A pair of Wood Pigeons perched together in the autumn leaves.

There was a distant view from the Lido jetty of a Pied Wagtail hunting along the edge of the restaurant terrace ...

... so I hurried round to the terrace to get a better shot, to discover that it had been chased off by a Grey Wagtail.

The other Grey Wagtail was at the edge of the pool at the top of the Dell waterfall, looking a bit sad because the waterfall still hasn't been turned back on. Both birds were hatched at the Lido last summer.

The pool has been cleared of fallen leaves. The local Grey Heron still thinks there are fish in it, and is probably right.

Another of our regular Black-Headed Gulls has turned up: 2PSN, which was ringed in the unromantic surroundings of the Pitsea landfill site near Basildon.

EZ73323 was in its favourite place on the lifebelt pole.

A young Black-Headed Gull played with a twig.

Mute Swans passed by in the evening light.

An immature Shoveller drake paddled through sunny reflections.

There are several large Pike under the parapet of the Italian Garden -- Paul saw four yesterday, and estimated the largest as weighing 16 to 20lb. They are hard to photograph as the water is murky, and this is the best I could manage of one of them. It's over 2ft long.

The spire visible to the north of Kensington Gardens has developed a slight but alarming lean, and was being inspected. I wonder whether its Victorian builders had the sense to give it an iron frame. The church it belonged to was bombed in the war and has been replaced by a block of flats in an attempt at a harmonising style -- it must be the only modern building in London with flying buttresses.