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The greatest thing about autumn? All the beautiful colours! It's also a very exciting time to see lots of animals out and about making their winter preparations. For our ‘Underground Life’ issue, we encouraged you to go outside and get snapping with a camera. We’ve got to admit, our readers have a great eye for photography. Look at these super shots! Isaac, age 8, Leigh on Sea - Jay
Lara, age 9, Maybole - Peacock Butterfly
Sage, age 5, London - Twisted Tree
Tiarnan, age 7, Seascale - Water of a Swan's back
Eben, age 6, St. Bees - Bright Berries
Congratulations you've all won the new, exclusive RSPB version of Monopoly.
It’s the traditional game you know and love, but instead of buying Mayfair or Old Kent Road, you work your way around the board, collecting stunning bird sites and visiting habitats such as woodlands, wetlands and coastal regions. You also add bird watching hides and visitor centres as you go. Ideal for two to six players, ages eight and up.
RRP £34.99
Available at: rspbshop.co.uk 
Daniel, age 6, Cork, Ireland - Leopard Slug
Uilliam, age 11, County Down - Ground beetle
Lottie & Jake, Needham Market - Golden leaves
Dalila, age 7, Croydon - Swans and Gulls
Matthew, age 11, Cumbria - Dragonfly
Shiloh, age 7, Cardiff - Grey Squirrel
Mohammed, Mushrooms
Kerry, age 8, Walsall - Swan
Eden, age 8
Izaac, age 8, West Sussex - Bird collecting nesting material
Finbarr, age 5, Seascale - Swans on the lake 
Isabella, Milton Keynes - Swallowtail butterfly
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This competition asked you to design a secret egg hidden somewhere in nature, and your entries went far beyond the obvious nests and burrows. Eggs arrived disguised as pine cones, floating on leaf boats, perched on volcano ledges, tucked into cloud cover and even masquerading as chocolate Easter eggs to fool foxes. Thank you to every reader who took up the challenge and thought like a parent bird, fish, reptile or imaginary creature trying to keep their precious egg safe.
We were swept away by the response to this competition. Letters arrived from rivers across the world – the Thames, the Mississippi and many more unnamed waterways – each one brimming with personality, passion and a genuine love of the natural world. You gave your rivers voices that were worried, hop...
Somewhere beneath a grassy field right now, a tiny insect is building an underground loudspeaker. Male mole crickets engineer horn-shaped burrows that amplify their calls hundreds of metres into the night air – and your child can recreate the same science at home using nothing but cardboard and a phone. This hands-on experiment explores sound, shape and natural engineering in a way that is genuinely surprising. No screens, no special equipment, just a brilliant idea borrowed from nature.
