Milan Radisics / Female Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) waiting to be fed at the back entrance of a house, Hungary. January.
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Matt Roseveare / Caddisfly larva (Trichoptera) building armoured casing / case with pebbles on riverbed, Cornwall, UK, April. Controlled conditions.
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Michael W. Richards / Little owl (Athene noctua) pair perched on beam inside barn, mutual preening before one adult flies away, Brompton Ralph, Somerset, UK, February.
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Guy Edwardes / St. Catherine's Chapel under the Milky Way, Abbotsbury, Dorset, UK, July.
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Kim Taylor / Female Red mason bee (Osmia bicornis) stocking her nest in a glass tube with nectar and pollen before laying an egg, followed by her sealing the cell with mud, Surrey, UK, April.
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Marie Read / Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger) excavating nest scrape on beach by squatting and kicking backwards using its feet, Long Island, New York, USA, August.
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Nick Upton / Common carder bumblebee (Bombus pascuorum) nectaring on a Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) flowerhead among many Common daisies (Bellis perennis) on a lawn left unmown to allow wild flowers to bloom t...
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John Chan / Great blue heron (Ardea herodias) resting, perched prior to returning to nest site with nesting material, Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Southern California, USA, February.
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John Chan / Great blue herons (Ardea herodias) engaging in twig transfer during nest building, Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Southern California, USA, February.
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Neil Aldridge / Slow motion shot of two Grey long eared bat (Plecotus austriacus) flying, leaving roost in barn to go hunting, Devon, UK. The Grey long eared bat is one of the UK's rarest mammals.
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Neil Aldridge / Slow motion shot of Soprano pipistrelle bat (Pipistrellus pygmaeus) crawling out of roost in barn roof and flying away, Devon, UK.
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Guy Edwardes / Corfe Castle at dawn, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England, UK. September 2013
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Ashley Cooper / Houses flooded by the River Severn after Storm Ciara and Storm Dennis, the wettest February recorded in the UK. Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK, February 2020.
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Ashley Cooper / Bus station flooded by the River Severn after Storm Ciara and Storm Dennis lead to the wettest February recorded in the UK. Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK, February 2020.
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Ashley Cooper / Zoom out of Station W, a former British scientific research station, left as it was after researchers evacuated in 1959, Detaille Island, Graham Land, Antarctica, 2020.
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Pal Hermansen / An aerial shot panning up to reveal a coastal landscape with football field, houses and mountains in the background, Henningsver, Lofoten, Norway, August.
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Pal Hermansen / Aerial shot of a mountain area newly opened with road construction for housing development, threatening the mountain landscape, Viken, Norway, August.
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Stephen Dalton / Barn owl (Tyto alba) in flight approaching bell-tower, carrying rodent prey to young in nest. Sussex, UK.
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Doug Gimesy / Ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus peregrinus) licks water droplets from a train station bench at night.
Gardenvale train station, Gardenvale, Victoria, Australia. September.
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Edwin Giesbers / Barn owl (Tyto alba) perched on gravestone in front of church, in evening light. The Netherlands. Captive.
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Guy Edwardes / Portland Bill lighthouse at night with Milky Way, Isle of Portland, Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, Dorset, England, UK, June.
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Guy Edwardes / Barn amongst network of meadows and drystone walls, on summer morning. Wensleydale, Yorkshire Dales National Park, North Yorkshire, England, UK. May.
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Philippe Clement / Blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) collecting cotton wool for nest building before flying out of frame, Belgium, April.
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Guy Edwardes / Waves crashing against sea wall and Porthcawl Lighthouse during Storm Ciara, people storm watching surrounded by waves. Mid Glamorgan, Wales, UK. February 2020.
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Konrad Wothe / Macgregor's bowerbird (Amblyornis macgregoriae) decorating his bower in a rainforest, Papua New Guinea.
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Nick Upton / Roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) buck running past a garden shed at night, Wiltshire, UK, April. Property released.
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Nick Upton / White-lipped snail (Cepaea hortensis) crawling over an oak sleeper retaining a garden lawn with a greenhouse in the background, Wiltshire, UK, April.
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Nick Upton / Garden snail (Cornu aspersum / Helix aspersa) crawling over an oak sleeper retaining a garden lawn with buildings and a greenhouse in the background, Wiltshire, UK, April.
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Matthew Maran / Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) plays with a dead common garden frog (Rana temporaria) on allotment, North London, England, during coronavirus lockdown, March 2020.
Michael Hutchinson / Female Goldenrod spider (Misumena vatia) on Annual honesty (Lunaria annua) flower, trying to catch a hoverfly, Bristol, England, UK, April.
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Guy Edwardes / Brown tent-making bats (Uroderma magnirostrum) roosting under a palm leaf, lowland rainforest, Costa Rica. November.
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Derek Galon / Aerial tracking shot showing aftermath of landslides, two months after hurricane Maria, Dominica, Lesser Antilles, 2018.
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John Shaw / Barn and wheat field in the Palouse farming area of southeastern Washington, USA, August
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Guy Edwardes / Ardnamurchan Lighthouse, Ardnamurchan Peninsula,
Scotland, UK. October 2006.
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Doug Gimesy / Jeremy Jenkins, seeing his house for the first time after the 2019 / 2020 wildfires destroyed much of the the town of Sarsfield,Victoria, Australia. January, 2020. Editorial use only
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Erlend Haarberg / Moose (Alces alces), calves near house in winter, Jokkmokk, Sweden, February.
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Erlend Haarberg / Mountain hare (Lepus timidus) in spring outside a Norwegian house, Vauldalen, Norway, May.
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Guy Edwardes / Countryside in the Val d'Orcia in Spring, Tuscany, Italy
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Guy Edwardes / Aurora Borealis over Reykjanes Lighthouse, Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland
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Guy Edwardes / Landscape of farmland with Cypress trees, Tuscany, Italy. May 2019.
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Guy Edwardes / Corfe Castle in early morning mist, Dorset, England, UK, October 2018.
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Milan Radisics / Aerial tracking shot of Porer lighthouse on a small island in the Adriatic Sea, Croatia, 2015.
Eduardo Blanco / Pale burrower mayfly (Ephoron virgo), swarming in the millions on street at night, appearing like snow. Mayflies recently hatched. Tudela, La Ribera de Navarra, Navarre, Spain. August 2019. Finalist i...
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Fabio Pupin / Moorish gecko, (Tarentola mauritanica), hunting on window, Italy, April . Non-ex.
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Morley Read / Slow motion clip of a Spiny orb-weaver (Micrathena sp.) weaving a silk nest to protect its eggs, the nest is suspended from a thread to isolate it from predators, Amazon rainforest, Ecuador. Filmed at...
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John Shaw / Abandoned house in middle of a wheat field. Palouse farming area, south eastern Washington, USA, August.