DIVING down at a speed of 75mph, this is the moment a hungry osprey caught his prey. The osprey swoops in, with its eyes firmly fixed on the trout below, before making a sharp exit with his meal. The moment was photographed by Andrew Lee in El Dorado Park in Long Beach, California. ‘The osprey at this lake circled the edges trying to spot a fish,’ says Andrew, of Irvine, California.
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
Lying angelically with a range of expressions etched on their tiny faces, little bundles of joy are innocently captured in their first few days in these adorable photographs .
LIFTING their heads high and bumping beaks, these aggressive pelicans clash over fish .
THIS incredible shimmer of silver fish mirrors the image of that of an underwater tornado .
A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .
DIVING down at a speed of 75mph, this is the moment a hungry osprey caught his prey .
A quiet Himalayan mountain village springs to life for a colourful Buddhist festival designed to expel evil spirits and bring happiness .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
AN ANGRY giraffe gave a bush-riding cyclist a scare when he stomped his £2K bike into the dirt .
SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .
NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .