The beautiful nature

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These amazing images capture the moment a puffin was the victim of a mid-air mugging by a greedy gull.

The puffin got a nasty shock when it the raider swooped in to snatch a haul of sand eels from its beak.

The smaller seabird, which would have had to work hard for its beakful of fish, was taken totally by surprise during the airborne smash-and-grab.

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        A HUGE bull called The Field Marshall has reaffirmed his title as Britain’s biggest bullock after piling on the beef.

The eight-year-old Charolais tipped the scales at 3,682lb (1,670kg) – a staggering 300lb more than he weighed one year ago.

He took part in a charity "guess the weight" contest, where organisers had to use specialist scales used to weigh lorries to calculate his mass.

The Field Marshall has overtaken the previous record holder, his former stablemate The Colonel, who stood 6ft 5in tall and weighed 3,500lb before his death in 2005.

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LEGAZPI, Philippines (AP) — Philippine troops on Monday pressed the last 3,000 villagers who have refused to heed government warnings to leave the danger zone around a volcano that experts say is ready to erupt. Tens of thousands of people have already been evacuated from the foothills of Mayon, which on Monday emitted lava fountains, powerful booming noises and other signs of an approaching eruption. But authorities are having trouble keeping villagers away from their homes and farms, said Gov. Joey Salceda. "There are people who have been evacuated three times, and we sigh: ‘You again?’ " said Salceda of central Albay province. "We’ve been playing cat and mouse with them."
After a week of puffing out ash and sending bursts of lava trickling down its steep slopes, the 8,070-foot (2,460-meter) mountain overlooking the Gulf of Albay and Legazpi city shook with nearly 2,000 volcanic earthquakes and tremors between Sunday and Monday, state volcanologists said

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The Eisriesenwelt (German for "World of the Ice Giants") is a natural limestone ice cave located in Werfen, Austria, about 40 km south of Salzburg. The cave is inside the Hochkogel mountain in the Tennengebirge section of the Alps. It is the largest ice cave in the world, extending more than 42km and visited by about 200,000 tourists every year.

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It’s like a perfect hike in the late fall with one very big twist. Professional diver/photographer Anatoly Beloshchin took these breathtaking photos in the cave in Cenote Angelita, Mexico. Here is his description of this bizarre and enchanting place:
“We are 30 meters deep, fresh water, then 60 meters deep – salty water and under me I see a river, island and fallen leaves… Actually, the river, which you can see, is a layer of hydrogen sulphide.

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