STAR-TI-LING: 40,000 STARLINGS MIMIC HITCHCOCK'S THE BIRDS- This could be the fearsome scene from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds as a flock of 40,000 starlings bask in the heat of a wonderful British sunset .

Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .

A former food addict who had spent her whole life dreaming of romance shed an astonishing 12st 7lbs to experience love for the first time .

Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .

An osprey soars through the air at 30 miles per hour before swooping down to catch its prey from a lake .

ROLLING across a 65-metre-high viaduct in the Alps, the red carriages of the Bernina Express add a splash of colour to the spectacular snow-covered Swiss surroundings .

SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .

FROM a HOLLYWOOD actress to the face of an innocent child, these are incredible drawings with an unlikely twist .

Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .

IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .

A project to create an underwater tribute to the stone Moai statues of Easter Island ended in disaster when 15 replica structures were destroyed after toppling from a boat and into the sea .

A nine year old girl nearly lost her leg after doctors initially misdiagnosed her bone cancer as a pulled muscle .