See the Captivating Winners of the British Wildlife Photography Awards Contest

A pheasant on a cold spring morning in Wales. This photo won the “11 and Under” category of the competition.

The winner of the “12-14 years” category was this photo of a Roe deer (C. capreolus) in the English woods.

The overall winner of the young British Wildlife Photographer of the Year award was this striking photo of a coot (F. atra) fleeing from a fight and taking off from a pond in Surrey.

This photo of a red squirrel’s silhouette was the runner-up image in the “Black & White” category.

A pair of great crested grebes are in courtship in this runner-up photo in the “Animal Behavior” category.

An walrus (O. rosmarus) happy lying on a slipway in North Yorkshire, England. The shot of the walrus—dubbed “Thor”—was taken at 2:28am local time, and was the runner-up in the “Urban Wildlife” category.

This head-on view of a hair was the runner-up in the “Animal Portraits” category.

This shot of seaweed thriving under the surface of a rock pool was the runner-up in the “Botanical Britain” category.

These fireworks anemone were imaged with fluorescence photography, highlighting the remarkable arms of the organisms. The image was the runner-up in the “Coast & Marine” category.

Runner-up in the “Wild Woods” category was this mystical shot of Badbury Clump, a collection of beech trees and bluebells in Oxfordshire.

These slime moulds are minuscule. Their photo—composed of 160 individual images—won the “Botanical Britain” part of the contest.

Runner-up in the “Hidden Britain” category was this shot of a flower crab spider wrestling a bee on the underside of a daisy in Devon, England.

Runner-up in the “Habitat” category was this shot—“The Crop Thief”—showing a brown hare (L. europaeus) gnoshing on a crop in Nantwich Cheshire, England.

A starling in flight at night (that’s right!) won the “Animal Portraits” category.

This shot of a raven aloft over the Isle of Arran, Scotland, won the competition’s “Black & White” category.

Winner of the “Wild Woods” category, this spellbinding shot looks up toward the highest heights of a beech tree grove in East Lothian, Scotland.

Behold, the overall winner of the competition: a shot of a socc—er, football—covered in goose barnacles on its underside. The barnacles are not native to the UK, indicating the long journey the ball has been on.

Foxes are a familiar sight in the UK, and this one—a female in Bristol—is no exception. The photographer captured the fox pacing a long a wall in an electricity substation, and the photo won the “Urban Wildlife” competition category.

It’s not quite a fox on a box, but it’ll do. This fox in Nottinghamshire’s Sherwood Pines Forest Park made its way onto a tree branch, making for a pretty composition in this competition winner for the “Habitat” category.

Several frogs’ heads poke out from a pond as males wrestle, competing for a female. This image won the competition’s “Animal Behavior” category.

The winner of the “Hidden Britain” category was this beautifully composed shot of common blue butterflies (P. icarus) in a field in Devon.