British Wildlife Photography awards 2011 – in pictures

A jellyfish is captured off Sula Sgeir, Scotland, by Richard Shucksmith, who was the overall winner of the awards, also scooping the Coast and Marine prize Photograph: Richard Shucksmith/British Wildlife Photography Awards

The Wildlife in my Back Yard winner by Rana Dias, of a wasp on some blackberries in Horley, Surrey Photograph: Rana Dias/British Wildlife Photography Awards

The Animal Behaviour category was won by Andrew Parkinson's snap of a grey heron appearing to walk on water in Derbyshire Photograph: Andrew Parkinson/British Wildlife Photography Awards

Ian Paul Haskell took the Habitat prize with this photo of a brown hare at dawn in Norfolk Photograph: Ian Paul Haskell/British Wildlife Photography Awards

The Portraits winner was won by Mark Smith, who heard this fallow deer before he saw it, while walking in Surrey Photograph: Mark Smith/British Wildlife Photography Awards

This is a scorpion fly photoed by Leslie Holburn in Ebchester, Durham. This came top in the Hidden Britain category Photograph: Leslie Holburn/British Wildlife Photography Awards

The stunning mountain landscape and the 'gin-clear water and algae forests' of Llyn Idwal in Snowdonia. This photo by Graham Eaton triumphed in the Living Landscape: Connectivity section Photograph: Graham Eaton/British Wildlife Photography Awards

Spooked starlings make a hasty exit from a tree in Bayston Hill, Shropshire. David Biggs opportunistically took this photo from his house, and subsequently won the Urban Wildlife category Photograph: David Biggs/British Wildlife Photography Awards

Ross Hoddinott won the Summer Insects category with this snap of a thick-legged flower beetle on a corn marigold, taken at Pentire Point, near Newquay, Cornwall Photograph: Ross Hoddinott/British Wildlife Photography Awards

Another Ross Hoddinott winner in the same category, this time with an early morning photo of a marbled white butterfly, using backlighting to create the desired effect. This was taken at Dunsdon Nature Reserve, Devon Photograph: Ross Hoddinott/British Wildlife Photography Awards

The penultimate Hoddinott winner in the Summer Insects category is this one of a dewy banded demoiselle damselfly, again backlit, at Tamar Lakes, Cornwall Photograph: Ross Hoddinott/British Wildlife Photography Awards

Hoddinott's final winning photo is this one of a newly emerged common darter dragonfly, taken at Tamar Lakes by his parent's pond Photograph: Ross Hoddinott/British Wildlife Photography Awards

Oliver Wilks won the Young British Wildlife Photographer 12-18 years category for this photo of a red fox awaking following an afternoon nap. Wilks patiently staked out the sleeping fox until the right moment came along Photograph: Oliver Wilks/British Wildlife Photography Awards

The Young British Wildlife Photographer up to 11 years category was won by Walter Lovell, 8, who again waited patiently for this photo of a frog checking its frogspawn in his garden in Painswick, Gloucestershire Photograph: Walter Lovell/British Wildlife Photography Awards

Neil Aldridge won the Documentary Series for his portrayal of a game shoot in Hertfordshire. Here, a spaniel waits to be put into action by its owner Photograph: Neil Aldridge/British Wildlife Photography Awards

A pheasant lies dead in the leaf litter while a hunter awaits the next drive. For Aldridge, such shoots are an example of Britain's complex relationship with nature Photograph: Neil Aldridge/British Wildlife Photography Awards

A spaniel retrieves a pheasant as part of the day's haul Photograph: Neil Aldridge/British Wildlife Photography Awards