Motorway bugs and birds.

[Graham]

Been doing some tree clearance along boundary fence lines. So much wildlife on motorway corridors. Eight spp of butterfly today, lots of warblers in the bramble. Even peewits sitting on eggs...3 pairs and a beetle in an old ash log. Some sort of stag?

 

 

 

[slack ma girdle]

The beetle looks like a lesser stag beetle, and i am impressed at hoe close you were able to get. Or was it a massive telephoto lens

Edited May 5, 2011 by slack ma girdle
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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

nice lesser stag, havent seen a peewit for years.

[Graham]

The beetle looks like a lesser stag beetle, and i am impressed at hoe close you were able to get. Or was it a massive telephoto lens

 

She was sitting about 30m into a grass area off a slip road so just stopped on the hardshoulder and clicked away. One bird has hatched eggs and is followed by four chicks.