SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Creative impression of Silver birch (Betula pendula) foliage, Creagellachie NNR, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK.May

Guy Edwardes / Trees reflected in Loch Tummel, Perthshire, Scotland, UK. October, 2014.

Bernard Castelein / Birch tree (Betula pendula) covered in hoar frost, Groot Schietveld, Wuustwezel, Belgium, December 2007.

Theo Bosboom / Birch tree (Betula pendula) with lichen, camouflaged against lichen covered rock face, Muddus National Park, Sweden. September 2014. Highly commended in GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Yea...

Sandra Bartocha / Silver birch (Betula pendula) and Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) trunks in snow, Muritz-National Park, Germany, January.

Sandra Bartocha / Silver birch (Betula pendula) with Heather (Calluna vulgaris) in full bloom, Reicherskreuzer Heide, Nature Reserve Schlaubetal, Germany, August.

Sandra Bartocha / European white birch / Downy Birch (Betula pubescens) and Common Heather (Calluna vulgaris), Reicherskreuzer Heide, Schlaubetal, Germany, August

Sandra Bartocha / Downy / European white birch (Betula pubescens) tree trunks in the mist, Waldstadt, Potsdam, Germany, November

Sandra Bartocha / Forest view of trunks of Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris), Downy European white birch (Betula pubescens) and European Beech (Fagus sylvatica) trees, Muritz National Park, Germany, November

Sandra Bartocha / Forest view of trunks of Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris), Downy European white birch (Betula pubescens) and European Beech (Fagus sylvatica) trees, Muritz National Park, Germany, November

Peter Cairns / European Lynx (Lynx lynx) in birch forest in snow, Tromso, Norway, captive, April

Bernard Castelein / Silver birch (Betula pendula) on misty morning. Klein Schietveld, Brasschaat, Belgium. September 2011.