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  • Don't recall this being mentioned on here before
    If you see Stag Beetles when you're out and about please report the sighting here:
    https://stagbeetles.ptes.org/take-part-in-the-great-stag-hunt/
    it's easy enough on your phone and photos help the survey too

    they were a frequent summer sight when I was a kid but the small male I spotted this morning was the first I'd seen in probably two years
  • Billy_Mix said:
    Don't recall this being mentioned on here before
    If you see Stag Beetles when you're out and about please report the sighting here:
    https://stagbeetles.ptes.org/take-part-in-the-great-stag-hunt/
    it's easy enough on your phone and photos help the survey too

    they were a frequent summer sight when I was a kid but the small male I spotted this morning was the first I'd seen in probably two years
    I often see them when walking around High Elms.
    The wooded area just behind the golf course. 
    Plenty of fallen down trees which they seem to like. 
  • Billy_Mix said:
    Don't recall this being mentioned on here before
    If you see Stag Beetles when you're out and about please report the sighting here:
    https://stagbeetles.ptes.org/take-part-in-the-great-stag-hunt/
    it's easy enough on your phone and photos help the survey too

    they were a frequent summer sight when I was a kid but the small male I spotted this morning was the first I'd seen in probably two years
    I can't remember the last time I saw one. As you say, used to see them all the time as a kid.
  • Dartford B&M carpark. I'm not sure what they had been buying.


    Doesn’t look like they’ve bought anything. Probably just having a gander. 
    Or the security guard told them to duck off
    Or didn't like the size of the bill
  • Dartford B&M carpark. I'm not sure what they had been buying.


    B&M is a bargain store and geese don't go cheap
  • Billy_Mix said:
    Don't recall this being mentioned on here before
    If you see Stag Beetles when you're out and about please report the sighting here:
    https://stagbeetles.ptes.org/take-part-in-the-great-stag-hunt/
    it's easy enough on your phone and photos help the survey too

    they were a frequent summer sight when I was a kid but the small male I spotted this morning was the first I'd seen in probably two years
    Here's one for you! Today in Petts Wood.




  • Huskaris said:
    Frozen ponds on Chislehurst!


    My mandarin is looking a bit less exciting now! But he's a happy dad!


  • Elephant Hawkmoth and Privet Hawkmoth. It might not be obvious from the names which is which.
  • Rarely see em when mooching out in the sticks, yet Dagenham is humping with em -


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  • Gribbo said:
    Rarely see em when mooching out in the sticks, yet Dagenham is humping with em -


    We've got loads of Audis where we live.
  • Gribbo said:
    Rarely see em when mooching out in the sticks, yet Dagenham is humping with em -


    We've got loads of Audis where we live.
    👏 😆
  • definitely
  • Cygnus Atratus on the Serpintine, Hyde Park today.  

    Wiki tells me that Black swans are their own separate breed.

     
  • edited September 16
    "First imported from Australia around 1791... Since 1902 they have nested intermittently on the Thames, mostly in the vicinity of London and under the nominal tutelage of the Worshipful Company of Vintners , by whom they were acquired from Australia in exchange for Mute Swans" Lever C, (2009), The Naturalized Animals of Britain and Ireland. 


  • edited September 18

    Migrant Hawker
  • Stig said:

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  • Found three of these while taking the tent down.
  • Found three of these while taking the tent down.
    Lesser Stag Beetle?
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  • edited September 20
    Found three of these while taking the tent down.
    That's a devil's coach horse beetle, and their bite farkin hurts

  • Can we have  a " Not like I'm F'ing petrified button"
  • Gribbo said:
    Found three of these while taking the tent down.
    That's a devil's coach horse beetle, and their bite farkin hurts
    From a human point of view, when I'm out in the field, it's not wasps or hornets (asian or otherwise) that bother me, it's these and ked flies. 
  • Gribbo said:
    Found three of these while taking the tent down.
    That's a devil's coach horse beetle, and their bite farkin hurts
    Should have heard the missus scream she thought it was a scorpion.
  • Gribbo said:
    Found three of these while taking the tent down.
    That's a devil's coach horse beetle, and their bite farkin hurts
    Should have heard the missus scream she thought it was a scorpion.
    Yeah, their backs come up a bit like a scorpion, but pretty sure they bite as opposed to sting. 

  • Cleg Flies, these are the real arseholes of the insect world. 
  • I’ve been following the story of the beaver family released in paradise fields near Ealing. Already a new kit has been born. 
    Hope to get over there sometime. 
  • I've got a big one!


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