An osprey soars through the air at 30 miles per hour before swooping down to catch its prey from a lake. Pictured in the Scottish Highlands, the bird hits the water before lifting off with a rainbow trout in its talons. The striking photographs were captured by 16-year-old student Samuel Aron, of Watford, when he visited the Rothiemurchus fishery in Aviemore, Scotland.
An osprey soars through the air at 30 miles per hour before swooping down to catch its prey from a lake .
AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .
LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .
This frozen lighthouse in Michigan could easily be mistaken for a still from the snow swept disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow .
A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .
SQUABBLING over the last piece of grain, these hungry squirrels are determined to stock up on as much food as possible .
YOU’VE heard of the northern lights now feast your eyes on the natural wonder of the SOUTHERN lights .
HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .
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 .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
