TUGGING on the wing of his sibling, this needy owl is after some attention. While two owls settle down to rest, a third still wants to have fun and clasps hold of his brother’s wing. The little owls were photographed in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire by sales manager Dean Mason. The 48-year-old, of Bournemouth, Dorset, says: “The three siblings are doing exactly what siblings do - playing combined with the odd argument.”
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A blanket of fog is lit up by the colourful glowing lights of the city below .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
WIDE EYED and staring straight down the lens of the camera, this intrigued seal is ready for his close up .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
PICKING up a tiny tea-pot with its paws, a little red squirrel struggles to prepare its morning tea .
A host of websites that are almost twenty years old are collecting a cult following thanks to their retro appeal .
At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .
Southern England, the south-west and west Wales have been warned to expect more wild weather, with heavy rain and high tides possibly leading to coastal flooding and travel disruption over the weekend .
HUDDLED together in the hollow of a tree, it would be easy to overlook these two sleepy owls as they blend into the trunk .
POWERFUL bolts of lightning illuminate the night sky in an incredible autumn storm over the Sardinian coastline .