A DETERMINED great blue heron holds on tightly to its prey as the furry gopher attempts to wriggle free. With all its tiny might, the rodent manages to pull its paw free from the clutch of the huge heron's beak. This moment was caught by professional photographer Daniel Dietrich, 44, in Point Reyes, California. Daniel, originally of New York, says: “The blue heron first attempted to spear the gopher with its beak while the rodent retreated into its burrow.
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 .
What lies beneath this building site? Britain's great hope of winning the pre-WW2 arms race against Nazi Germany .
STRETCHING his little legs in the air, a smiley leaf-tailed gecko breaks free from his old, scaly skin .
WITH HIS PAW covering his mouth, this cheeky cub looks amused by something .
SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .
More weather chaos is heading our way, with ice and snow already hitting areas across Birmingham .
FINALLY catching a meal, a pair of great white egrets fight over their dinner .
An osprey soars through the air at 30 miles per hour before swooping down to catch its prey from a lake .
MEET the underwater British seal who is so friendly he loves to grapple divers like a friendly puppy dog .
PICKING up a tiny tea-pot with its paws, a little red squirrel struggles to prepare its morning tea .
With a dust covered coat hung from a wardrobe door and a pair of glasses left on a shelf, a remote farmhouse lies abandoned in the Welsh countryside .
