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  • Billy_Mix
    Billy_Mix Posts: 2,707
    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
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,675
    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. 
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601
    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.
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,484
    killerandflash said:
    DaveMehmet said:
    killerandflash said:
    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
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,484
    killerandflash said:
    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
  • Huskaris
    Huskaris Posts: 9,849
    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
    Huskaris Posts: 9,849
    Huskaris said:
    Frozen ponds on Chislehurst!


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

  • Athletico Charlton
    Athletico Charlton Posts: 14,274

  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,024

    Elephant Hawkmoth and Privet Hawkmoth. It might not be obvious from the names which is which.
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,484
    Rarely see em when mooching out in the sticks, yet Dagenham is humping with em -


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  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601
    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
    Gribbo Posts: 8,484
    DaveMehmet said:
    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.
    👏 😆
  • Athletico Charlton
    Athletico Charlton Posts: 14,274
    edited September 2024
    Baby starling I think


  • Billy_Mix
    Billy_Mix Posts: 2,707
    definitely
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,680
    Cygnus Atratus on the Serpintine, Hyde Park today.  

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

     
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,024
    edited September 2024
    "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. 


  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,024
    edited September 2024

    Migrant Hawker
  • Billy_Mix
    Billy_Mix Posts: 2,707
    Stig said:

    Migrant Hawker
    GB News and the Reform company's worst nightmare
  • Dippenhall
    Dippenhall Posts: 3,919
    Found three of these while taking the tent down.
  • Billy_Mix
    Billy_Mix Posts: 2,707
    Dippenhall said:
    Found three of these while taking the tent down.
    Lesser Stag Beetle?
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  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,484
    edited September 2024
    Dippenhall said:
    Found three of these while taking the tent down.
    That's a devil's coach horse beetle, and their bite farkin hurts
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,567
    Athletico Charlton said:

    Can we have  a " Not like I'm F'ing petrified button"
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,484
    Gribbo said:
    Dippenhall 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. 
  • Dippenhall
    Dippenhall Posts: 3,919
    Gribbo said:
    Dippenhall 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
    Gribbo Posts: 8,484
    Dippenhall said:
    Gribbo said:
    Dippenhall 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. 
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,024

    Cleg Flies, these are the real arseholes of the insect world. 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    Stig said:

    Cleg Flies, these are the real arseholes of the insect world. 
    Cool sunglasses though.
  • Addictedoldgit
    Addictedoldgit Posts: 1,826
    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. 
  • Huskaris
    Huskaris Posts: 9,849
    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 
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,680
    I've got a big one!


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