Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice. These adorable photographs were taken by Canadian photographer Dennis Minty, 67, when he was working as a polar bear guide on the west side of Hudson Bay, Canada. “This is where bears gather through October and November, in anticipation of the freeze-up of the Bay,” says Dennis, of Newfoundland and Labrador.
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
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A curious red squirrel takes a break from collecting nuts and tries her hand at photography .
A little clownfish opens its mouth to reveal a blood sucking intruder living on its tongue .
EAGERLY BITING his nails, this little squirrel is clearly nervous of looming predators as he searches for his meal .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
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The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .