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September

BOBCAT by Vishal Subramanyan, California, USA A friend and I went searching for bobcats, but after hiking for a few hours, we hadn’t seen any. Just as we turned back, we spotted two – a mother and her kitten. The kitten was initially obscured, but then suddenly appeared in the fork of this tree.

October

ELEGANT TERNS by Jack Zhi, California, USA Elegant terns are expert at catching unpredictable and quick-moving fish. I photographed these two diving for the same fish in Orange County, California. One was slightly quicker than the other, and emerged triumphant.

November

SAMBAR DEER Sudhanshu Tiwari, Indore, India It was a foggy morning during my trip to Keoladeo National Park in Bharatpur, India. The park has beautiful walking paths, which were almost invisible due to the weather that day. I had to wait an hour for anything to happen. After a while, I was able to spot […]

December

GREAT HORNED OWL Jack Zhi, California, USA This great horned owlet jumped out of the nest a little too early. He didn’t know how to fly yet and was also not very good at hanging on to his tree. He fell from high up but managed to grab onto these low branches. He tried to […]

Caterpillar

CATERPILLAR Anil Kumar Verma, Maharashtra, India During our visit to Sanjay Gandhi National Park my wife and I spotted this caterpillar, which was so well camouflaged that it took us some time to make out. It was kind enough to let us get some good shots before it left to munch on some leaves.

Whatever you do, don’t feed the bears!

Whatever you do, don’t feed the bears! PAUL McGUINNESS, EDITOR The mere mention of Yellowstone always brings to my mind Yogi Bear talking the long-suffering Boo-Boo into another daring raid on pic-a-nic baskets in their own Jellystone Park. It’s a warm picture, one that takes me back to simpler times. The real Yellowstone goes back […]

Small world

Highly commended in this year’s GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Year, this image shows an aphid navigating the fruiting body of the slime mould Stemonitis. The competition winners will be announced on 28th October and you can see some of the highlights on our online gallery at discoverwildlife.com/photogalleries/gdt. Photo: VALERIA ZVEREVA/GDT EUROPEAN WIILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER […]

Skating on thin ice

Cheeky Adelie penguins will risk a telling off in order to steal some food