LINED up one by one on a deer’s back, these little birds give their wings a break as they catch a ride across London. Aware of her hitchhikers, the female red deer seems unfazed as the starlings arrive. The scene was photographed by 16-year-old student Samuel Aron on a day out in Richmond Park, London. Samuel, of Watford, says: ‘I have seen this behaviour before from starlings, but I have never seen so many on one deer.
SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .
This is the amazing moment two white-tailed kites take an in-flight meal - exchanging prey at 100 foot high in mid air .
TENNIS was a game made for three according to the first Victorian rule book .
AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .
WITH the mystical clouds forming a thick blanket and the electrifying lights below, these stunning pictures provide a unique view of the cityscape of Dubai taken from the tallest building in the world .
MEET the little lion of suburbia with a mane that makes him look like a mini-king of the jungle .
A panic stricken kitten that got her head stuck in a car tyre has been freed by quick thinking RSPCA staff .
It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .
