David Woodfall / Sunrise over offshore wind turbine farm, Essex, England, UK, December.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) foraging amongst heather as first light hits forest floor, Cairngorms National Park, Highlands, Scotland, UK, March.

Floris van Breugel / The first rays of sunshine above the Sierra Crest, illuminating granite, Mitre Basin, Sierra Nevada, Sequoia National Park, California, USA, August

Floris van Breugel / First rays of golden sunshine hit Giant Sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum) covered in a winter blanket of snow and frost, Grant Grove, Sequoia / Kings Canyon National Park, California, USA November

David Pattyn / Black necked grebe (Podiceps nigricollis) adult in breeding plumage in the first golden light of the early morning. The Netherlands. May 2014

David Pattyn / Great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus) adult in the first morning light. The Netherlands.May 2014

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Cape gannet (Morus capensis) drying in a heated pen (a heat lamp illuminates the pen with a red light) after its first wash, which removed some of the oil that coated its feathers. Some oil remains on...

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Osprey (Pandion haliaeetus) in flight, fishing at dawn, Rothiemurchus forest, Cairngorms NP, Scotland, UK, July. Photographer quote: ""This female, caught at first light, has two hungry chicks waiting...

David Noton / First light at dawn in the Bluebell woods at Batcombe, Dorset, England, UK

Wild Wonders of Europe / Schandy / First light on snow covered mountain near Dombay, Teberdinsky biosphere reserve, Caucasus, Russia, July 2008

Wild Wonders of Europe / Schandy / First light behind snow covered mountain near Dombay, Teberdinsky biosphere reserve, Caucasus, Russia, July 2008

Wild Wonders of Europe / Schandy / First light on snow covered mountain near Dombay, Teberdinsky biosphere reserve, Caucasus, Russia, July 2008