things waking up

[wickerman]

just looked in my little garden pond and see at least 5 palmate newts and then at my back door a female great crested newt .....not seen one for years

https://imgur.com/fH2xf7W

 

[Toddy]

Excellent
I have newts in my garden too, I spotted one slipping into the pond on Sunday morning, and like you I thought, hmmm, things are wakening up.
We no longer have GC newts. The council gave permission for three blocks of flats to be built on the 'hayfield' over the burn a few years ago.

This is now tarmac, walls and 96 flats and no great crested newts.

 

[wickerman]

Excellent
I have newts in my garden too, I spotted one slipping into the pond on Sunday morning, and like you I thought, hmmm, things are wakening up.
We no longer have GC newts. The council gave permission for three blocks of flats to be built on the 'hayfield' over the burn a few years ago.

This is now tarmac, walls and 96 flats and no great crested newts.

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such a great shame all this building ......I have always had the small palmates but this is first great crested I have seen .....odd frogs and only ever seen one toad

 

[wickerman]

https://imgur.com/2zor1zT

had to pick it up to get it to the pond