From swimming guillemots and sun-dappled Scots pines to a coy seal and ravenous pigeons, the winners of this 12 months’s British Wildlife Images Awards rejoice the range of animal life throughout Nice Britain.
Jurors thought of greater than 13,000 pictures submitted by amateurs and professionals alike, with the highest award going to Simon Withyman, who captured a placing portrait of a feminine fox in his hometown of Bristol.
“I had been photographing this vixen for three years,” Withyman says. “This streetwise fox was a successful mother and had a family of young mouths to feed. I was instantly drawn to the interesting perspective effect of these railings and wanted to showcase some beauty in this everyday urban scene.”
Further spectacular pictures embrace Drew Buckley’s dramatic view of Scotland’s Monadhliath Mountains with a white hare within the foreground and a troupe of ravenous pigeons headed for a bag of chips, captured on a GoPro by teenager Ben Lucas. See much more within the BWPA 2025 winners gallery.
Mark Kirkland, “Guillemot Kingdom.” Guillemot (Uria aalge), St. Abbs, Scotland
