A proud stag attempts to impress the females by donning an enormous fern headdress in London's Bushy Park. Pictured at the beginning of rutting season, the stag can barely see through a mass of leaves tangled in his antlers as he parades around a small group of deer. The scene was photographed by accountant Val Saxby during an early morning visit to the park, located in Richmond upon Thames in south-west London. The 55-year-old, of Shaftesbury, Dorset, says: “I spotted the stag with six females amongst an avenue of trees in the park."
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
ROLLING up snow in its tiny paws, this little squirrel is looking for a snowball fight .
SOARING through the air, this is the moment a hungry tawny owl arrives home with dinner .
BASKING in smug satisfaction, a confident squirrel gives a wink to the camera .
FULL OF STUNNING colours and swirling shapes, the furrows on these fields create a mix of mesmerising patterns .
This is the amazing moment two white-tailed kites take an in-flight meal - exchanging prey at 100 foot high in mid air .
A once bustling gold rush town in Mono County, California now stands completed deserted .
NOT YOUR everyday selfie, this plucky diver poses with some of the scariest predators in the ocean .
An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .
