Alex Hyde / Adder (Vipera berus) basking amongst bracken fronds. Peak District National Park, Derbyshire, UK. April.

Oscar Dewhurst / Red deer (Cervus elaphus) stag pursuing hind through the bracken. Bushy Park, London, UK. September

Oscar Dewhurst / Fallow deer (Dama dama) stag standing in bracken at sunrise. Richmond Park, London, UK. January

Oscar Dewhurst / Fallow deer (Dama dama) stag walking through long grass at sunrise. Richmond Park, London, UK. January.

Ross Hoddinott / Dock Bug (Coreus marginatus) on bracken, Broxwater, Cornwall, UK. August.

Guy Edwardes / View over New Forest lowland heathland from Vereley Hill at dawn, Burley, New Forest National Park, Hampshire, England, UK. August 2011

Oliver Hellowell / Red deer (Cervus elaphus) hind in bracken, Glen Etive, Scotland, UK. June.

Jack Dykinga / Bracken ferns and Sorrel growing on a felled Redwood tree, Redwood National Park, Prairie Creek, California, USA. May 2017.

Nick Upton / Ruddy darter dragonfly (Sympetrum sanguineum) female eating a fly while standing on a bracken frond, Studland heath, Dorset, UK, July.

Russell Cooper / Red deer (Cervus elaphus) stag bellowing. Surrey, UK, October.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Silver birch (Betula pendula) in autumn, Beinn Eighe National Nature Reserve, Wester Ross, Scotland, UK, October.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Mixed woodland in late autumn, Drumbeg, Sutherland., Scotland, UK, November.