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London, UK
Canada geese fly through early morning mist in Richmond Park.
Photograph: John Walton/PA
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Nuuk, Greenland
An iceberg.
Photograph: Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters
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Ita, Paraguay
A yacare caiman swims in a lagoon.
Photograph: Norberto Duarte/AFP/Getty Images
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Langkawi, Malaysia
A bee feeds on nectar from a flower.
Photograph: Mohd Rasfan/AFP/Getty Images
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Hexham, UK
A fish leaps on the weir of the River Tyne in Northumberland as it travels upstream to spawn. The river is one of the best in England and Wales for fishing sea trout and salmon.
Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA
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Biqing, China
A black snub-nosed monkey at Baima Snow Mountain Nature Reserve.
Photograph: China News Service/Getty Images
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Port Lincoln, Australia
A flock of emus walk along the windswept sand dunes of Lincoln National Park. Cape Barren geese and kangaroos are among other wildlife in the park.
Photograph: James Shrimpton/AAP
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Taplow, UK
A comma butterfly rests on slender verbena flowers in Berkshire.
Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/Rex/Shutterstock
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Toronto, Canada
A jagged ambush bug in Ontario.
Photograph: Creative Touch Imaging/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock
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Bagayev Bay, Russia
Employees of the Russian Emergencies Ministry rescue a baby orca stranded in the Sea of Okhotsk off the Russian Pacific coast. Rescuers and volunteers turned the baby orca around towards the open sea and poured water on it for several hours as it was only half submerged in the water.
Photograph: Russia Emergencies Ministry/Tass
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Bangkok, Thailand
Frogs sit in a tyre on a makeshift farm on the bonnet of a taxi, one of many vehicles in a rental firm’s lot that has been out of service after a downturn in business as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
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Aberdeen, Scotland
A ringed seal, typically only found in Arctic waters, is cared for by the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Scotland’s animal welfare charity was alerted to the male seal by British Divers Marine Life Rescue after he was spotted at Cove Bay Harbour in Aberdeen on 27 August.
Photograph: Scottish SPCA/PA
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Tureby, Denmark
Trees shrouded in fog on a late summer morning.
Photograph: Mads Claus Rasmussen/EPA
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Xi’an, China
The equinox flower, also known as manjusaka, is scientifically named Safflower lycoris. Buddhist scriptures state: ‘The Equinox flowers bloom for 1,000 years, and fall for 1,000 years. The flowers and leaves will never meet. Love is not a cause and effect, and fate is doomed to life and death.’
Photograph: Sipa Asia/REX/Shutterstock
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Fair Isle, UK
A starfish clings on to a mat of colonial baked-bean sea squirts. Divers have documented the hidden habitats of many of Fair Isle’s remote sea caves for the first time in a project to increase understanding about them. Marine surveys were carried out in about 70 caves on the island, with dive teams battling difficult weather conditions to carry out full biological surveys of four.
Photograph: Graham Saunders/NatureScot/PA
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Humaita, Brazil
Smoke from burning vegetation rises in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest near the Trans-Amazonian highway in Amazonas state.
Photograph: Bruno Kelly/Reuters
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