A DETERMINED great blue heron holds on tightly to its prey as the furry gopher attempts to wriggle free. With all its tiny might, the rodent manages to pull its paw free from the clutch of the huge heron's beak. This moment was caught by professional photographer Daniel Dietrich, 44, in Point Reyes, California. Daniel, originally of New York, says: “The blue heron first attempted to spear the gopher with its beak while the rodent retreated into its burrow.
PERCHED on a branch, these two frogs hold hands as they look into the camera .
Destroyed buildings and overturned cars are seen after a huge tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma, near Oklahoma City, May 20, 2013 .
An artist has NAILED IT by creating beautiful and perfectly precise artwork using a hammer and 30,000 nails .
SAT happily on the branch of a tree, this little frog appears unfazed by a surprise visitor .
With one hand rested on his belly and the other propping his head up, this lazy lizard takes an afternoon break .
She is about to start driving and soon will be able to legally buy alcohol and get married, but Poppy Webb-Jones still looks and thinks like a ten-year-old girl .
A GIRL nicknamed JAWS by bullies who taunted her because of her underbite is em-bracing her new post-surgery life .
An osprey soars through the air at 30 miles per hour before swooping down to catch its prey from a lake .
Tina O’Brien, 54, from East Midlands, met Frederick Allchorne, now 62, when she was 15 .
Hot on the heels of a little rabbit, this cheetah is on a mission to catch his prey .
AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .