The week in wildlife

New England's autumn foliage meets with an early snow in Franconia Photograph: Jim Cole/AP

A rutting stag bellows in a wildlife park in Aurach, Austria Photograph: Kerstin Joensson/AP

A skein of pink-footed geese fly past the moon as they prepare to land at the Vane Farm nature reserve in Fife, Scotland. About 20,000 pink-footed geese stop off at the nature reserve each year, some to refuel and some stay, as they migrate to the south for the winter from Iceland Photograph: David Moir/Reuters

Apples wait to be gathered during the apple harvest in Somerset Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Guardian

A three-month-old lynx cub through a glass cage at the Roev Ruchey municipal zoo in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk Photograph: Ilya Naymushin/Reuters

Horse riders travel through Ashdown Forest in Sussex. Ashdown Forest, the home of AA Milne and his son Christopher, was the setting for the Winnie-the-Pooh stories. The first authorised sequel to the 1920s classics, called Return to Hundred Acre Wood, was published this week Photograph: Kieran Doherty/Reuters

Rescuers remove steel string from the paw of an injured tiger in Malaysia. Wildlife authorities rescued the five-year-old Malayan tiger, badly injured in a snare set up by poachers near the country's jungle border with Thailand. The government said in July it had sought the help of the military to battle poaching, adding that Malaysia was committed to a plan to double the tiger population to 1,000 by 2020 Photograph: WWF Malaysia/AFP/Getty Images

A turkey vulture launches into the air from a tree at Hawk Mountain sanctuary in Pennsylvania. The turkey vulture, also known as turkey buzzard, is a carrion feeder, flying low to detect gasses produced by decaying dead animals Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP

A herd of deer grazes on pasture ground on the Yamal peninsula, north of the polar circle Photograph: Staff/Reuters

The polluted Dal Lake in Srinagar, Kashmir. The lake has been polluted from decades of neglect and a separatist revolt. Dal Lake, the region's main tourist attraction which has drawn visitors from Mughal emperors to the former Beatle George Harrison, has shrunk from 25 sq km to 13 sq km since the 1980s, environmental campaigners say Photograph: Fayaz Kabli/Reuters

A picture taken by small cameras strapped to four albatrosses. The images captured by the 82g cameras have recorded the birds working with a killer whale to capture fish. The devices were attached to the birds from the breeding colonies at Bird Island research station in South Georgia, in a British Antarctic Survey (BAS) project Photograph: British Antarctic Survey/PA

An agitated monkey is chained to a tree in the earthquake-ravaged village of Tandikat, Indonesia's West Sumatra province Photograph: Dylan Martinez/Reuters

A worker ties a bamboo stick to a fence along the coastal line in a mangrove plantation at the Kok kham district in Samutsakorn province Photograph: Sukree Sukplang/Reuters

A rare victoria crowned pigeon hatched out of its shell last month, and is the very first of its kind to have been bred at the London zoo Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Ducks and swans swim along the river Lee near East Hyde, one of the UK's most polluted rivers Photograph: Graham Turner/Guardian