Fantastic picture - shame you didn't have a macro with you - but that's still a great shot.
We are using a lot of timber and letting it decay here (chipped wood mulches, whole tree trunk benches, even a pile of timber left to rot)- surprising how it brings in the beetles, which in turn bring in the birds (woodpeckers, little owls etc.)
No stag beetles yet - but I live in hope
you'll only get Stag Beetles if you're in the South East BR.
2.2 Population and distribution
The stag beetle is still widespread in southern England, especially the Thames
valley, north Essex, south Hampshire and West Sussex. It also occurs fairly
frequently in the Severn valley and coastal areas of the south-west.
Worcestershire is close to the northern edge of the stag beetle’s present British
range. The beetle survives in apparently isolated populations around Uptonupon-
Severn and in Worcester city (figure 1) where suitable quantities of
decaying wood, especially tree stumps, can be found.
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