comanche 2,799 Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 (edited) Doing a favour for a friend I found myself looking for logs to weigh down a cover over some hay bales I'd stacked for her. The very first log I shifted exposed these little chaps. So the log went back very carefully. Edited November 22, 2014 by comanche 8 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bobcullen79 1,495 Posted November 23, 2014 Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 Looks like a male and female great crested. Nice find. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
comanche 2,799 Posted November 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2014 Another log revealed a cluster of less exotic and less legally sensitive smooth newts. One of which I did touch before tucking them back up for winter. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ossie n Arch 1,682 Posted November 25, 2014 Report Share Posted November 25, 2014 Nice find. Could do with a few of them near me. Might stop the 105 houses being built in the fields by us. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
peterhunter86 8,627 Posted November 25, 2014 Report Share Posted November 25, 2014 When we were kids wr used to swim in an old quarry thay was full of newts Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bosun11 537 Posted November 25, 2014 Report Share Posted November 25, 2014 Great crested and/or toads, the little feckers are sometimes under my wheely bins and i'm forever worried i squash em. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Longers7 720 Posted November 25, 2014 Report Share Posted November 25, 2014 Nice find. Could do with a few of them near me. Might stop the 105 houses being built in the fields by us. lol that would definitely throw a spanner in the works mate!! I found this out when trying to get planning for 20 houses :-( Quote Link to post Share on other sites
the goat 642 Posted November 25, 2014 Report Share Posted November 25, 2014 These used to be everywhere when I was a kid running round the mountains. Haven't seen 1 in years now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
j j m 6,479 Posted November 26, 2014 Report Share Posted November 26, 2014 very nice mate Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bosun11 537 Posted November 26, 2014 Report Share Posted November 26, 2014 Next doors pond is chock full with them, every dip with the net and your in. I told this to some goverment boffins who were 'surveying' the local farm ponds without any luck. Think they near shit when i showed em! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The one 8,395 Posted November 26, 2014 Report Share Posted November 26, 2014 Used to see them under sheets of tin etc at a old pond never seen any here for a couple of years Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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