i just spotted a young one near my frog pond in my garden! i was so fascinated by it. i have honestly never seen one before in all my 24 years. what a joy it was to stumble across one!
Yes, lovely and colourful though the smaller varieties (palmate and common) are, encountering a great crested newt is more memorable. I've seen them in the wild 3 times in my 50+ years of nature watching. First ones 9around 4)were in a quarry pond near Dorking, including 3 'black dragon' crested males. Last year I found 2 juveniles under logs in Bushy Park, each the size of a common newt. Still haven't located their breeding pond which is nearby. Yes, I did briefly handle them without a licence. Nothing happened - I wasn't cuffed by the Police!
They are so incredibly cute! But my favourite newt is the alpine newt. I always had them in my garden, year after year. And I could watch them 'raise' their babies!
id love alpine newts, i know they are invasive-assume you are uk based, but they are stunning. saw a load of ponds utterly crammed with them in the forests around zurich, couldnt move for them.
When I was a kid I went to my local pond and got a few newts for my tank I didn't know I had all three newt Species. when I realised I put them all back next spring.
I have their larvae I my pond, but there's more disappearing each day, so I put one in a tank to care for it and then let it go, I hope it'll have a better chance of survival. Super interesting to watch!
One of the greatest moments of skimming a pond is when you end up catching a big water beetle (e.g., Hydrophilous piceus), or a large predaceous diving beetle (e.g., Dytiscus dimidiatus, or Cybister lateralimarginalis)! Ponds are such amazing ecosystems and critical for the conservation of endangered amphibians, snakes (e.g., Natrix natrix) and freshwater insects.
I used to catch them in Ponds in Essex 1960's. I kept and Breed some in an Old Bath. Once young were big enough. I would then even return many to the Pond. Until the Farmer and or Council filled the Pond in..! People were moaning about Mossie's or Gnats..! Also a Person who had a Pond Complained to my Dad. "Your Kids Newts are getting into my Pond and Hurting my Gold Fish..!" So he Killed them..! Thats why they are Rare..! Kids fishing with a Net, Ponds Filled and Goldfish owners Killing them. Ergo. Almost Vanished. Sad..!! 😢
your soul and the suffering of children just kidding crested newts diet consists primarily of invertebrates including insects, worms, water snails, larvae and sometimes tadpoles.
i just spotted a young one near my frog pond in my garden! i was so fascinated by it. i have honestly never seen one before in all my 24 years.
what a joy it was to stumble across one!
And that's really a Great Crested Newt? - If so, I really envy you/LOL!
Yes, lovely and colourful though the smaller varieties (palmate and common) are, encountering a great crested newt is more memorable. I've seen them in the wild 3 times in my 50+ years of nature watching. First ones 9around 4)were in a quarry pond near Dorking, including 3 'black dragon' crested males. Last year I found 2 juveniles under logs in Bushy Park, each the size of a common newt. Still haven't located their breeding pond which is nearby. Yes, I did briefly handle them without a licence. Nothing happened - I wasn't cuffed by the Police!
They are so incredibly cute! But my favourite newt is the alpine newt. I always had them in my garden, year after year. And I could watch them 'raise' their babies!
id love alpine newts, i know they are invasive-assume you are uk based, but they are stunning.
saw a load of ponds utterly crammed with them in the forests around zurich, couldnt move for them.
We have have in our garden pond no idea how they got there but they are there
When I was a kid I went to my local pond and got a few newts for my tank I didn't know I had all three newt Species. when I realised I put them all back next spring.
Luxus lokalita-Triturus cristatus! Super dokument.
Great video thank you for sharing I enjoyed watching.
Just curious as to why this large warty beastie isn't called a salamander rather than a newt? What distinguishes one from the other?
I have their larvae I my pond, but there's more disappearing each day, so I put one in a tank to care for it and then let it go, I hope it'll have a better chance of survival. Super interesting to watch!
One of the greatest moments of skimming a pond is when you end up catching a big water beetle (e.g., Hydrophilous piceus), or a large predaceous diving beetle (e.g., Dytiscus dimidiatus, or Cybister lateralimarginalis)! Ponds are such amazing ecosystems and critical for the conservation of endangered amphibians, snakes (e.g., Natrix natrix) and freshwater insects.
I used to live in a place where we had pond with these now the pond is dried up😭
does it swim?
what do you think
l think yes my friend
l think yes .from upasika
No! It just plays the Bagpipes!
If it can be arsed, and swishes its tail, yes!
I love them
I used to catch them in Ponds in Essex 1960's.
I kept and Breed some in an Old Bath. Once young were big enough. I would then even return many to the Pond.
Until the Farmer and or Council filled the Pond in..!
People were moaning about Mossie's or Gnats..!
Also a Person who had a Pond Complained to my Dad.
"Your Kids Newts are getting into my Pond and Hurting my Gold Fish..!"
So he Killed them..! Thats why they are Rare..!
Kids fishing with a Net, Ponds Filled and Goldfish owners Killing them.
Ergo. Almost Vanished.
Sad..!! 😢
Its a nano spinosaurus
What do they eat?
your soul and the suffering of children
just kidding
crested newts diet consists primarily of invertebrates including insects, worms, water snails, larvae and sometimes tadpoles.
Big Macs. 😀
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