Bottoms up!

On Friday, when I had my long lens with me, I was shunned by virtually all forms of birdlife. Perhaps it was inevitable that today, in Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, they would be swarming all around me since I only had a stumpy lens to work with! This coot was perhaps the most obliging in that he was fairly close to the shore and I was amazed at just how clear the water in the Serpentine was.

This time last year - Papilio demodocus