PERCHING on top of a gate, this young barn swallow waits patiently for his mum to return with dinner. The adult barn swallow arrives and hovers in mid-air, with an insect hanging from its beak. The six-legged treat is then delivered directly into the young bird’s open mouth, with the mother bird still hovering above. Wildlife photographer Menno Schaefer, of Zaandam, Netherlands, captured the moment during a trip to an open field in Spaarnwoude, a village north of Amsterdam.
A diving guide leaves a shark completely docile and balanced in the palm of his hand .
A cheeky owl fancies a game of hide and seek as it peeps out from behind a tree .
A BUMPER season of births has left zoo with three of the cutest exotic kittens you're likely to see .
A BROWN bear wades through waters in Alaska and waits for his lunch .
Swirling water and sand create amazing aerial images of river deltas across Iceland .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
A TEN-THOUSAND square foot wide Avatar-style grove is such a beauty it will leave you feeling VINE .
GIANT garden sculptures don't beat about the bush .
Kevin Silva, 52 from Indiana in the USA, has spent an estimated £65K ($100K) on Batman trinkets over the years, and even keeps his 2,500-item haul in his very own basement 'Bat Cave' .
THIS is the shocking moment a clumsy radio newsreader plunged into a freezing canal while texting her boyfriend instead of looking where she was going .
