Here are a few of my favorites pictures from among the winners of the British Wildlife Photography Awards shown at the Guardian.
My four top picks are all by Robert E. Fuller. All depicting least weasels (Mustela nivalis), they won in the four “British season” categories: summer, autumn, winter, and spring, shown in order. I love the weasl kit (is that the right word?) in the first photo:
Animal portraits winner: Jamie Mina. ‘Contemplation’, Mountain hare, Tomatin, Inverness, Scotland. Photograph: Jamie Mina.
Urban wildlife winner: Geoff Trevarthen. ‘The Supermarket Starling’, Cornwall, England. Photograph: Geoff Trevarthen.
Hidden Britain winner: Stephen Darlington, ‘Emergence’, Goring, Oxfordshire, England. Photograph: Stephen Darlington. [JAC: Just in case you think it’s copulation, it’s actually molting.]
And the Big Winner:
This year’s overall winner and winner of the coast and marine category is George Stoyle with his image ‘Hitchhikers’ of a Lion’s mane jellyfish, photographed at St Kilda, off the Island of Hirta, Scotland. Photograph: George Stoyle.
I’m not sure why the small fish are hitchhiking, but it probably has something to do with being protected by proximity to the stinging jellyfish.
h/t: Kurt Helf
Those weasels look fierce!
Love the wildlife pictures. While I was at the Guardian looking at them I came across this picture of a young woman (girl?) confronting a policeman at a protest in Santiago Chile that was so striking to me I thought I’d share.
If I were that policeman she would have made a serious impact on me!
The car park at our local Sainsbury’s is divided up between crows and starlings, I have seen them gang up on pigeons trying to muscle in.