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
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.
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.
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
"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.
Not London Inner City, but in Lecce, Southern Italy. Incredibly hard to take a photo but I had to just so I could identify it... A Hummingbird Hawkmoth. So cool. Managed to do one at an incredibly quick shutterspeed to isolate the blur on a couple too
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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
The wooded area just behind the golf course.
Plenty of fallen down trees which they seem to like.
Elephant Hawkmoth and Privet Hawkmoth. It might not be obvious from the names which is which.
Wiki tells me that Black swans are their own separate breed.
Migrant Hawker
Cleg Flies, these are the real arseholes of the insect world.