A cattle egret and an army of red-crested pochard from Ismaninger Speichersee near Munich

A slow-worm in the Bavarian Alps from August

An alpine chamois from the German Alps

A willow tit and a three-toed woodpecker from the german Alps

Cattle egrets from southern Hungary - a species that used to be rare but occurs reliably now in larger numbers

Birdwatching in August in the Hungarian steppe - short-toed eagle, many rollers, white-tailed eagles and a spoonbill

Some ringed birds at the a ringing camp in north-eastern Hungary from August - river warbler, and three flycatchers, pied, spotted and red-breasted together

A lesser spotted eagle from northern Hungary from August

A road deer with a few sticky plant seedpods on it

Some birds on migration from the August from Hungary - icterine warbler, purple heron, a cuckoo and a red-footed falcon

A cardinal and a scarce swallowtail butterfly from Hungary

Natterjack toads running around in an old mine at the swiss-french border

Ophrys elatior, an extremely late flowering Ophyrs species, from end of July from the French-German-Swiss triple border near Basel.

An adder from the Austrian Alps, fallen into the middle of road quite angry at the passer-bye hikers

Four species of Nigritella orchid, miniata, austriaca, widderii and the locally endemic minor from the Trenchtling from Austria

Chamorchis alpina, an absolutely tiny and difficult to find high alpine species from Austria from July

Traunsteinera globosa, the globe orchid, Gymnadenia odoratissima and a Malaxis monophyllos, white adder's mouth from the Trentchling massive from Austria

Nigritella lithopoliticana growing in the hundreds on the Karawanken at the Austrian-Slovenian border from early July

A very dark red frog orchid from the Karawanken from south Austria

Fly orchid, globe-orchid, frog orchid and burn-tip orchid growing in the same meadow in the Bavarian Alps from June