Smooth Newts on Springwatch (2022)

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British Herpetology

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@Schmingle38 Жыл бұрын

I FREAKING LOVE NEWTS

@a.j.b.8658 3 ай бұрын

I found 3 little sisters curled up under a rotting piece of wood in my garden. They now dwell in an ideal small pond I made x

@kimcason8764 3 ай бұрын

Well Done A.J.B. when I was a Kid. Dad Swopped out the Old Bath for New. With his Help I dug a Hole for it in the Backyard in a Damp spot at the Bottom & Created a Pond. Rocks, Wood & Weed, Ect. Within Weeks a Toad had Moved in, It was the Main reason I/We did it..! Having found it Under Dad's Compost heap..! Up the Top of the Road was a Large Pond, So the Next spring, there were Tadpoles & Newt Babies ( which always remind me of Mini Axolotl.) I like to think, it became a 'Way Station' between a Big Pond in a Neighbour's Garden & the Top Pond. One year I even found a Young Grass Snake using the area. Sadly when I left for Australia in 1980, I lost contact with it. But I had years of Joy, watching my little Re. Wilding Project Thrive. No Newts out here Sadly. But I have made A Damp area in My Yard for Some Frog's/ Toad's that Live in my Gutter overflow pipes. In Spring I hear them Calling with a Kinda 'Bonk Bonk' tune. So know their at Home. Wish more people thought of Our Nature & Amphibians. Cheers from Downunder. 😎🦘🦎

@a.j.b.8658 3 ай бұрын

@@kimcason8764 I love that! I'm looking forward to spring (more than usual) so I can see what goes on. It's just the best thing in the world to watch nature for yourself, rather than the TV x

@PaIaeoCIive1684 Жыл бұрын

Although common newts are still er..common, I've only found crested newts 3 times since I first saw one in my teens. It's likely habitat loss causing our amphibian to become less widespread as many of the ponds I knew locally are long gone or dug out and filled with fish. There was a deep pond on the common here where one day I netted over 100 newts with the help of two pals. There were plentiful frogs there too. After one likely deliberate chemical dumping the entire pond ecosystem was destroyed. I remembered being upset by the sight of rows of dead frogs arranged around the pond and a skull-bearing warning sign installed by it. Then, the pond and my pond dipping memories were gone. Nostalgia, eh?

@BritishHerpetology Жыл бұрын

The loss of ponds from the British countryside is one of the most upsetting things in my opinion, due to memories like your own of how numerous amphibians (and other pond inhabiting species) use to be!

@PaIaeoCIive1684 Жыл бұрын

@@BritishHerpetology Thanks for reading my comment and 'hearting' it. Can still picture the rows of discoloured froggie bodies with their legs akimbo. By co-incidence, the other pond I loved as a boy disappeared a few years later. A murky pool on the sandy soil in Oxshott Woods. Used to get up to a dozen common and some palmate newts in one sweep f the net sometimes - often with a few efts and nasty predators like backswimmers and beetle larvae as a bonus. Wonder where the newts went when it dried up?

@ThePegasus101 Жыл бұрын

i live in holland every summer i have smooth newts in my pond..fantastic

@Sly_Wolf_1 6 ай бұрын

For many years I had a large pond, maybe because I had very large Koi Carp and they would eat everything, but I never once saw a newt. (Actually saw one koi with the head and front legs of a large frog poking out of her mouth) Anyway in the years since removing the pond I regularly have a newt visitor on my patio throughout the evening and night. I named her Tiny..... Because she my newt😂 Every night when the dogs need the garden I go out first to see if she is there. If she is I carefully move her to safety using a piece of thin rigid plastic.

@christophersavill4785 2 жыл бұрын

I've got 20 great cresteds in my pond. I supplement their natural food with earthworms. They eat till they're bursting

@BritishHerpetology 2 жыл бұрын

Make sure they've been recorded, you can do so here: www.recordpool.org.uk/

@PaIaeoCIive1684 Жыл бұрын

My Grandad remembered great crested newts being plentiful in the Kent town he lived. A lot of boys caught them, and sadly tortured them for sport. No protection under law for this species - or others - when they were more plentiful and widespread. Within 10 miles of me there are only 3 places I know have colonies, one I discovered last year in Bushy Park when I found 2 common newt-sized juveniles. So you're lucky to have some in your garden.