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Essay Competition Winners 2025

Please enjoy our wonderful entries from July and August.

Thank you to everyone who continutes to submit such interesting photos to this initiative.

'Annoyed Fox'

Leigh on Sea, "How dare you walk across my grass!"

Graham Mee
Leigh Estuary u3a

'Autumn Mist'

Ducks paddling around in the water at Sutton Bingham Reservoir, waiting for the Sun to burn away the mist. Taken before 8am

Peter Paniccia
Yeovil u3a

'Speckled Bush Cricket'

Perched on the top of my car when I arrived home from shopping

Graham Nicholls
Norton Radstock u3a

Snack Time

Found in High Batts Nature Reserve, North Yorkshire

Steve Black
Northallerton u3a

'Juvenile Avocet in Flight'

On a walk with the dog at RSPB Titchwell, North Norfolk

Bruce Clegg
Sudbury u3a

'Ladybirds with Wild Parsley'

At The Mount, Guildford

Claire Robertson
Guildford u3a

'Cockles'

At Pwllgwaelod beach Pembrokeshire

Nancy Olive
Thornbur u3a

'Sea Thrift'

Found in Porthgain, Pembrokeshire

Nancy Olive
Thornbury u3a

'Woodpecker taken from Window'

A regular visitor at Forton, near Lancaster

Stephen Price
Forton Preston u3a

'Summer Fruits'

Peter Paniccia
Yeovil u3a

'Squirrel Trying to Hide'

With a tail like that you can't hide you know! Found in my garden in Leigh on Sea

Graham Mee
Leigh Estuary u3a

'Angry Goose'

Taken while children were feeding the geese at the National Botanic Garden Wales

Sue Shannon-Jones
Swansea u3a

'Parasitic Broomrape'

Found on a u3a walk in the Test Valley

Margaret Bealing
Romsey Archway u3a

'Bluebottle - beauty or horror?'

Found in Llwyngwril

Chris Brookes
Cannock Chase u3a

'Pond Skater'

Found in my back garden

Graham Nicholls
Norton Radstock u3a

'Puffins listening to their Group Convenor'

On a visit to The Farne Islands in June

Patrick Ashcroft
Halstead & District u3a

'Hummingbird Hawk Moth'

Found at Foulness Island, Essex

Graham Mee
Leigh Estuary u3a

'Two Generations'

At High Batts Nature Reserve, North Yorkshire

Steve Black
Northallerton u3a

'House Sparrow'

In Leigh on Sea, one of our newly fledged House Sparrows from our sparrow nest box this Summer

Graham Mee
Leigh Estuary u3a

Line up of herring gulls

'Why Are We Waiting?'

This group of adult and young herring gulls was spotted standing on the breakwater wall in Peel harbour in the Isle of Man

Jim Melville
Balsall Common u3a

'Grey Heron Feeding'

Found in the grounds of the University in Konstanz in Germany, and spotted this heron feeding

David Groom
Cottingham u3a

'Bursting Poppy'

In my garden in Yeovil. How often do we see images of poppies that have not fully developed?

Peter Paniccia
Yeovil u3a

'Peacocks'

Taken on a wildlife group walk in Fineshade Woods, Northamptonshire

Don West
Harborough Welland u3a

'Heron'

At High Batts Nature Reserve, North Yorkshire

Steve Black
Northallerton u3a

'Painted Lady on Lavender'

Taken at a lavender farm open day at Saddington/Mowsley Leicestershire

Alisoun MacDermid
Harboro u3a

'Corn Bunting at Sunset'

Taken at RSPB Wallasea Island, Essex

Graham Mee
Leigh Estuary u3a

'Always Look Down'

Found at Garras, The Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall

Maureen Gibson
Helston & District u3a

'Windswept Trees'

I have known these trees for over fifty years and I am amazed that they continue to withstand the strong prevailing winds. They continue to grow on Injebreck Hill in the Isle of Man

Jim Melville
Balsall Common u3a

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