I’ve seen stag beetles around Greenwich a few times but never before in my back garden.



Strange, lumbering, and slightly prehistoric-looking beast; it’s made me want to buy a macro lens and start doing this kind of thing properly.
Like this:
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They’re magnificent. Great photos. You can log sightings at the Great Stag Hunt, too: https://ptes.org/get-involved/surveys/garden/great-stag-hunt/stag-hunt-survey/
Thanks! I had a vague memory that there was somewhere to record sightings; I’ll do that now.