Throwing their arms up in the air, these energetic squirrels play a game of ball with a walnut. Pictured in a frosty forest with their little paws dusted with snow, the pair of squirrels reach for and pass around the nut. The brilliant images were captured by radio company engineer Vadim Trunov when he spotted these sporty squirrels in a forest in the Voronezh region of Russia. The 30-year-old, of Voronezh, Russia, says: “I started taking pictures of squirrels in the woods two months ago.
FLEXING his muscles and staring straight at his opponent, this bodybuilding squirrel is the nuts .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
PERCHED on a branch, this Little Owl plays third wheel to two love birds .
PERCHED on a branch, these two frogs hold hands as they look into the camera .
STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .
A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .
SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .
A lazy otter finds the ideal spot to soak up the sun and sleep off his lunch .
With the full moon looming behind him, this polar bear nestles down for the night .
THIS incredible shimmer of silver fish mirrors the image of that of an underwater tornado .
CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .