The young Grey Herons have come down from their nest for the first time. One of them explored the island. It's not very good at flying yet but it gets around.
A Song Thrush sang by the busy path between the Peter Pan statue and the Italian Garden.
This is the second day I've heard this bird call in the shrubbery below the Triangle car park. The bird remains invisible and I'm not sure whether the call comes from the medium-sized nest you can see. I don't know what it is, and neither does the Merlin app. Can anyone identify it?
Ahmet Amerikali got a good shot of one of the Long-Tailed Tits in the Rose Garden bringing insects to the nest.
The female Little Owl at the Round Pond was in the small lime tree where both of them often perch.
On the ground below a female Magpie fluttered her wings, calling to her mate to feed her. Sometimes they do this for me, to get a peanut.
A Rose-Ringed Parakeet couldn't get into a Blue Tit box. The metal reinforcement of the hole is to stop woodpeckers from cutting their way in and eating the chicks.
The Great Crested Grebe chick on the Long Water was resting quietly beside a parent.
Last year the Coots' nest under the bridge had 18 eggs in it, laid by two different females who had an uneasy cooperation. It looks as if it's happened again this year. You can see 11 eggs here, with probably 3 or 4 more behind the Coot ...
... and two chicks have already hatched.
A Moorhen walked around the planter in the Italian Garden where the latest Coot nest is, probably deliberately to annoy the sitting Coot. The two species hate each other for no clear reason.
In the early afternoon the Black Swan was wandering round the Serpentine alone, hooting pathetically. Two hours later he was side by side with his girlfriend. Their on-off relationship is puzzling.
A stupid woman urged her dog into the lake beside a Mute Swan, which luckily was more than equal to seeing it off.
An Egyptian Goose was alone on the swans' nesting island in the Long Water. Is this the male of the Italian Garden pair, with the female now nesting in a tree?
The foxes in the Dell groomed each other, getting a light snack of fleas.
Two Brimstone butterflies courted on the lawn by the Henry Moore sculpture. The female is slightly paler. Originally I thought it was two males fighting, but I have been corrected.
There are many varieties of Salvia in the park, all much liked by Buff-Tailed Bumblebees.
The enormous flower bud of a Giant Onion, Allium giganteum, as big as a cricket ball, in the Rose Garden was just opening.
Latin dancing in the Hyde Park bandstand, a splendid way to spend a sunny Sunday afternoon.