These colourful little fish are a delight for snorkellers or shallow water divers to photograph, rarely being scared off by their presence!

This common fungus puffs out clouds of spores when it's mature.

The elephant hawk-moth is a pretty, gold-and-pink moth that can be seen at dusk in gardens, parks, woods and grassy habitats. The caterpillars look like elephant's trunks and have eyespots to…

This beautiful bumblebee favours upland areas, but has declined in recent decades and is now nationally scarce.

This jewel like leaf beetle is an incredibly scarce species which is only found in wetland habitats.

The common whelk is the largest sea snail found in UK seas, though you're more likely to find the dry balls of empty whelk egg capsules washed up in strandlines.

The fluffy, white heads of common cotton-grass dot our brown, boggy moors and heaths as if a giant bag of cotton wool balls has been thrown across the landscape!

This glossy wading bird is a scarce visitor to the UK, though records have become more common in recent decades.