Beautiful photos: Salmon upstream lay eggs

Salmon upstream lay eggs, cranes slowly eat in the fields, white tail urchins tumbled in the air, . are the most beautiful natural images in the past week.

Autumn morning in Waveney Valley, Suffolk, England.

Two swans seek food under the Spree river in Berlin, Germany.

Salmon are upstream to lay eggs in Selkirk, Scotland

A red squirrel eating seeds in the Kielder forest, Northumberland, England.

A pair of rare white-headed cranes leisurely eat on a field in Cheorwon, South Korea.

A 22-month-old tiger chasing a dry leaf
on the water in Bandhavgarh National Park, India.

The number of bat species in the UK in 2011 increased by 9% compared to 2010.

Photo of a deep-sea shrimp by Solvin Zankl
1st prize in the GDT Wildlife Photography Competition 2011.

A white-tailed osprey performs acrobatically in the skies of Skye, Scotland.

Close up of a tree frog in the Wildlife Park in Sydney, Australia.

The mother and hippopotamus swim underwater in Berlin Zoo, Germany.

Vulture birds eat dead animal dead in the National Park
Cevennes, near Saint Pierre des Tripiers, France.

Birds fly over snow-covered corn fields in State College, Pennsylvania, USA.

A couple walks under the canopy of yellow leaf trees in Lausanne, Switzerland.

A small seal fitted with a satellite tracking device is released back to nature in Norfolk, USA .