Dave Bevan / Slow motion clip of a Jay (Garrulus glandarius) feeding from a peanut string during a snowstorm, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK, November.

Tim Fitzharris / Grand Tetons from String Lake, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

Philippe Clement / Jackdaw (Corvus monedula) pulling up a peanut string to feed, Belgium

Tim Fitzharris / Clouds at sunset, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Colorado

Tim Fitzharris / String Lake and the Grand Tetons, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

Nick Turner / Boy kite flying on Selsley Common (unimproved grassland) Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, August 2011. Model released

Solvin Zankl / Pair of Common european toads (Bufo bufo) with strings of toadspawn, in pond, Germany. Specially commended in Wildlife Photographer of the Year (WPOY) 2013, Underwater Worlds Category.

David Shale / Shelled Pteropod / Sea butterfly {Diacria trispinosa} with egg string attached, from between 188 and 507m, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, North Atlantic Ocean

Kim Taylor / Common european toad spawn {Bufo bufo} toadspawn, UK.

Tim Fitzharris / Mt Moran and String Lake, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

Juan Carlos Munoz / Teak tree wood (Tectona grandis) used for making string instruments. Angkor. Siem Reap town, Siem Reap province. Cambodia.

Ernie Janes / Red runner bean flowers 'Scarlet Emperor' in rain shower in vegetable garden.