Thursday 6 June 2013

The Song Thrushes near the Serpentine Gallery have one fledgeling. Here it is begging a parent for a worm. They wouldn't come out into the sunlight, which would have given a better picture, and in fact they deliberately flew from one patch of shade to another.


There may be more young in the nest, because shortly after I took this picture there was an angry whirring from a nearby tree and a Magpie shot out, pursued by the other adult thrush.

Moorhen chicks are beginning to appear. Here is one near the boat hire platform being fed with a biscuit crumb that I had thrown to its parent.


There are also some Coot chicks on the island. These are not the first this year, as the Coot nesting near Peter Pan hatched some chicks which were promptly eaten by gulls. The island, covered in trees and shrubs, is better sheltered from gull raids.

The single Great Crested Grebe chick at the Serpentine island is getting quite large, and is now sitting outside the shelter of its mother's wings.


It is larger and older than the other two grebe chicks at the other end of the island, which have now come out into the open water with their parents, though they were too far away for a photograph.

The two Common Terns are still on the Long Water, and it is easy to see why, as they are easily catching all the fish they can eat. Here one of them arrives with a fish; it is about to land on a post and swallow its prey.


The Nuthatches in the leaf yard now have a family; three fledgelings have been seen. The parents were keen to come and take food off the fence, and were also attracted by whole peanuts jammed into cracks in the bark of a tree. I didn't see any of the young when I was there, as they were well hidden in the bushes.

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