SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) sitting on Chicken of the Woods fungus (Laetiporus), Cairngorms National Park, Highlands, Scotland, UK, June.

Philippe Clement / Chicken-of-the-woods (Laetiporus sulphureus) fungus in early stage growing on dead tree stump in summer, France, July

Kirkendall-Spring / Chicken of the woods fungus (Laetiporus sulphureus) in Olympic National Park. Washington, USA. September.

Philippe Clement / Chicken-of-the-woods / crab-of-the-woods (Laetiporus sulphureus) growing on tree stump in forest in summer, Belgium, July

Philippe Clement / Emerging fruiting body / basidiocarp of Birch polypore (Piptoporus betulinus) bursting through birch tree bark, Belgium, August

David Kjaer / Dyer's Mazegill (Phaeolus schweinitzii) Hampshire, England, UK, September.

David Kjaer / Dyer's mazegill (Phaeolus schweinitzii) Hampshire, England, UK, September.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Scottish wildcat (Felis silvestris grampia) inside camouflaged spring trap. Genetic testing and semen sampling to be undertaken, Strathsprey, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK, February 2017.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Conservationists from the Royal Zoological Society Scotland / RZSS checking live trap with Scottish wildcat (Felis silvestris grampia) inside. Genetic testing and semen sampling to be undertaken, Stra...

Mike Read / Birch polypore bracket fungus (Piptoperus betulinus) on Silver birch tree (Betula pendula) Great Huntley Bank, New Forest National Park, Hampshire, England, UK, October.

Doug Wechsler / Chicken-of-the-woods fungi (Laetiporus) Fort Washington State Park, Pennsylvania, USA

Doug Wechsler / Hen of the Woods fungus (Grifola frondosa) Morris Arboretum, Philadelphia, USA October