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  1. A White-tailed Eagle is flying above water. It has brown body with a pale head, a grey neck and white tail feathers. Its broad wings are open wide. Its chunky beak and tangling feet are yellow. The bird seems to have a fish in between its two feet.

  2. Custard fruit hang from the branches of a tree. They look like large avocados, but nobbly and a paler shade of green.

  3. A black and white forensic artist's drawing of a young man with a full head of fair hair, a black jacket over a white shirt with a knot at the collar . Next to it is an oil painting of two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, in the choppy waters of a rough sea

    4. Greg Foot clasps his head in his hands and looks worried. He is wearing a brown T-shirt and is sat behind a Radio 4 mic.

    • A field includes stalls and a tractor. There are two green banners either side of the entrance to the field near the bottom of the image. There are trees on the left and in the background.

    • The early reconstruction of the face of The Kendal Woman. She is a middle-aged woman wearing a dark brown turban and she has blue eyes.

    • A Bournemouth beach full of people sitting under brightly-coloured sun umbrellas.

    • The coast off a town centre, with an expanse of sandy beach. A large horseshoe shaped wall is visible in the sea and the marine pool is behind the wall.

    • Ewelme historian Carol Sawbridge smiling for a picture in front of Ewelme Church. It is a sunny day.

    • Li Jiaying, Hong Kong's first astronaut, waves while wearing a full white space suit

    • Three older ladies, two of them wearing floral tops

    • Bleddyn and Sue Wynn Jones in tall grass with trees and mountains in the background

    • A woman in a grey t-shirt and blue jeans is smiling at the camera. She is standing in a grassy field and there are plastic tubes sticking up from the ground which are acting as shoots for the planted trees to grow through.

    • A peregrine falcon in close profile. A bird with a hooked beak, yellow-rimmed black eyes, a black head, white chest with black flecks and grey wings

    • A close-up of a black-and-white cat sitting on a table. The cat only has one eye, and it has visible discharge and irritation around the eye socket. A person’s hands hold the cat in what appears to be a veterinary setting.

    • A man, Charles Baughan, with white hair and a white moustache, wearing a black polo short

    • A red fox pictured walking on green grass. The fox is looking away from the camera with its ears pointed upwards. It is in sharp focus, while the greenery around it has been blurred.

    • A person wearing glasses hugs a tree trunk in a leafy woodland area, with dappled sunlight filtering through the leaves overhead.

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      A large group of people, some dressed in river costumes, stand outside the Hay Festival entrance

    • Part of Grizedale Observatory. The building has a dome on its roof with shimmering stars seen in the night sky above - the Milky Way.

    • A teenage boy with a tote bag over his shoulder leans over a desk with a map on it. Behind the table two adult women and look downwards

    • A high-angle shot of a man and a woman in a small, silver aluminium motorboat alongside a wooden pontoon. The man, wearing sunglasses and a high-visibility life vest, sits at the steering console while the woman sits facing forward near the back.

    • A drone view of a black-and-white lighthouse on a narrow spit of land with green dunes in the centre and sandy beaches and sea water to either side.

    • Close-up of Himalayan balsam. It has large pink, bonnet-shaped flowers.