January 2022 Highlights Gallery

Fox (Vulpes vulpes) drinking water from a sauna pool in a garden

Fox (Vulpes vulpes) drinking water from a sauna pool in a garden; low angle view looking up through water, Verteskozma, Hungary. Hungary Nature Photographer of the Year Competition 2021 Winner - Mammals Behaviour category

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Animal, Animalia, Canid, Canidae, Caninae, Carnivora, Carnivore, Competition Winner, Drinking, East Europe, Eastern Europe, Europe, Facial Expression, Funny Face, Garden, Hungary, Low Angle View, Mammal, Mammalia, Opportunism, Opportunist, Photography Award, Red Fox, Thirst, Thirsty, True Fox, Vertebrate, Vulpes, Vulpes Vulpes, Vulpini, Wildlife

Male Fifteen spined stickleback / Sea stickleback (Spinachia spinachia)

Male Fifteen spined stickleback / Sea stickleback (Spinachia spinachia) guarding a nest in Spaghetti seaweed / Thong weed (Himanthalia elongata), Isle of Coll, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, UK, North Atlantic Ocean

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Actinopterygii, Animal, Animalia, Atlantic Ocean, Bony Fish, Bright, Brown Algae, Chromista, Coll, Colour, Contrasts, Copy Space, Europe, Fifteen Spined Stickleback, Fish, Fucales, Fucus Elongatus, Fucus Loreus, Fucus Pruniformis, Gasterosteidae, Gasterosteiformes, Gasterosteus Spinachia, Great Britain, Hebrides, Heterokontophyta, Himanthalia, Himanthalia Elongata, Himanthaliaceae, Inner Hebrides, Isle Of Coll, Luminosity, Marine, Marine Algae, Mixed Species, Negative Space, Ocean, Ochrophyta, Osteichthyes, Patrol, Patroling, Patrols, Phaeophyceae, Protection, Protector, Ray Finned Fish, Saltwater, Scotland, Scottish Islands, Scottish Isles, Sea Stickleback, Sea Thong, Side View, Spinachia, Spinachia Spinachia, Spinachia Vulgaris, Stickleback, Stramenophila, Thong Weed, Thongweed, Uk, Underwater, Vertebrate, Vibrant Colour, Water, Western Europe, Wildlife, Yellow, Yellow Green Algae

Leach's spider crab (Inachus phalangium) sheltering beneath the stinging tentacles of

Leach's spider crab (Inachus phalangium) sheltering beneath the stinging tentacles of Snakelocks anemone (Anemonia viridis). Swanage, Dorset, UK, English Channel

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Actiniaria, Actiniidae, Anemone Spider Crab, Anemonia, Anemonia Viridis, Animal, Animal Behaviour, Animalia, Anthozoa, Anthrozoan, Arthropod, Arthropods, Cancer Phalangium, Cancer Satuak, Cnidaria, Cnidarian, Coelentrerata, Colour, Commensalism, Crustacean, Crustracea, Decapod, Decapoda, Dorset, England, English Channel, Europe, Great Britain, Inachidae, Inachus, Inachus Dorhynchus, Inachus Phalangium, Invertebrate, Invertebrates, Leachs Spider Crab, Malacostraca, Marine, Mixed Species, Protection, Protector, Saltwater, Sea, Sea Anemone, Shelter, Sheltering, Snakelocks Sea Anemone, Spider Crab, Symbiotic Relationship, The English Channel, Uk, Underwater, Water, Western Europe, Wildlife, Yellow