We took out a 10 year old ash stump from the garden and I've been digging foundations for a cabin. I must have 'rescued' about 20 stag beetles - all fierce, feisty fellows. These are impressivle large beasts for a British garden and quite rare now - but locally common it seems. I had to draw one but he was crawling away rather fast. The drawing went next to a picture of bark falling from a rotting tree - rather appopriate.