A doting seal smiles at her sweet little pup as she tickles its tummy on the beach. Lying on the sand, the seal gazes down at her fluffy baby as it playfully wriggles around underneath her flipper. The heart-warming scene was captured by 46-year-old photographer Elmar Weiss on a beach in Heligoland, Germany. Elmar, of Hamburg, Germany says: "I have never seen such a loving bond between a seal and her baby before...
This is the amazing moment two white-tailed kites take an in-flight meal - exchanging prey at 100 foot high in mid air .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .
A GLOWING range of greens and blues sweep across the sky in a spectacular display of light .
A lazy otter finds the ideal spot to soak up the sun and sleep off his lunch .
Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .
A blanket of fog is lit up by the colourful glowing lights of the city below .
This frozen lighthouse in Michigan could easily be mistaken for a still from the snow swept disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow .
BASKING in smug satisfaction, a confident squirrel gives a wink to the camera .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .