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.
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
From vibrant blues to dazzling oranges, these eye catching hummingbirds proudly show off their impressive colours .
A Little owl looks down the lens of a camera and gives the photographer a cheeky wink .
The gunslingers are long gone and tumbleweeds have taken over at this abandoned American Wild West Theme Park in Cornwall .
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 .
THIS astonishing film shows the moment a hit-and-run driver ploughed into a woman and a toddler on a Coventry street .
A photographer has captured stunning photographs of the Milky Way above picturesque landscapes in the UK and Italy .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .