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Amazing to see so much happening in your pond at such an early time of year! I can imagine all the amphibians snug as a bug in your hibernaculum! What a wonderful place to spend the winter, and a lovely pond to breed in come springtime. Great video, so nice to know the amphibians are fine in a frozen pond and no need to try and melt the ice. Hope you have a great weekend and get a break in the weather. Lovely time of year to be outdoors.
Thankyou yes best way is to let nature take its course and not interfere with it so many people try breaking the ice but the problem with that it send shockwaves through the water which can make more harm than good. You have a lovely weekend and thanks so much for your support once again 🐸💚🐸
Hello my friend🙂, hope you’re doing well. Lovely video of your wildlife pond during the winter time❤️. Great to see the amphibian activity at night despite the cold. I’ve had a few late developing Toad Tadpoles over the years, that have survived harsh winters and then complete their metamorphosis as it warms up🙂. You’re so lucky to have lots of Newts about in your wildlife pond😃. Surprise to see the frogs there pretty early😲🐸🐸. Well done !!🙂.
Hi Nirmal. Any luck on your wildlife search in the Park? I'll be out looking for amphibians in your wildlife pond just after it gets dark if you want to say hello. See you.
@@UkAmphibians Hello again, mate. Yes, there are still Smooth Newts in there, just not as many as a few weeks ago. The females have finished egg-laying but one 'inflated' one I saw has a water retention problem. Tends to rectify itself in most cases. A couple of frogs in the pond still and I saw one by torchlight eating a worm with some effort. In case he doesn't get your notification, Nirmal told me he'd been lucky on his wildlife search in Bushy Park yesterday, finding another large Grass Snake (showed me images of the attractive specimen on his phone. Adult male most likely).
@CliveofEngland hi Clive thanks for replying sounds good that normal has found a grass snake too tell him to send me some pics on facebook be nice to see them 🐸💚🐸
Even in December there's amphibian activity in ponds if it stays mild enough. There are still invertebrates in the pond to forage for. As a kid, my favourite pond was in the woods at Oxshott near Esher and in summer this quite shallow pond was teeming with newts, efts and many invertebrate predators. In winter visits I'd net for newts and there'd be some still active in the cool water, including some paedomorphic efts which were the size of adults but kept the red gills - like a bunch of small axolotls. If you expect freezing weather leading to icing of your pond, do you use the old trick of placing tennis balls on the water to provide easy holes for aerating the water? Don't want the 🐸hibernating in the pond to run out of oxygen or suffer from harmful gasses building up under a long-term iced pond. My Spanish Ribbed Newt survived two winters in the back garden pond quite well, even during a cold winter where the water iced over - growing to an impressive 10 inches and chunky with it. Although he took many amphibian tadpoles he was especially partial to earthworms I dropped to the pond bottom.
Hi Clive no I don’t bother with tennis balls in the pond they do fine if I just leave it iced over. I used to try the old trick with a pan of hot water and stand it in the ice but it soon freezes back over if it’s cold enough 🐸💚🐸
🐸💚🐸 If you haven’t seen how we built our wildlife pond with its Built in Hibernaculum PART 1 is below as well as all our other videos on how the pond develops over the years 🐸💚🐸
Don’t Forget To Comment Like Subscribe and Share our Videos too
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Amazing to see so much happening in your pond at such an early time of year! I can imagine all the amphibians snug as a bug in your hibernaculum! What a wonderful place to spend the winter, and a lovely pond to breed in come springtime. Great video, so nice to know the amphibians are fine in a frozen pond and no need to try and melt the ice. Hope you have a great weekend and get a break in the weather. Lovely time of year to be outdoors.
Thankyou yes best way is to let nature take its course and not interfere with it so many people try breaking the ice but the problem with that it send shockwaves through the water which can make more harm than good. You have a lovely weekend and thanks so much for your support once again 🐸💚🐸
Hello my friend🙂, hope you’re doing well. Lovely video of your wildlife pond during the winter time❤️. Great to see the amphibian activity at night despite the cold. I’ve had a few late developing Toad Tadpoles over the years, that have survived harsh winters and then complete their metamorphosis as it warms up🙂. You’re so lucky to have lots of Newts about in your wildlife pond😃. Surprise to see the frogs there pretty early😲🐸🐸. Well done !!🙂.
Hi Nirmal. Any luck on your wildlife search in the Park? I'll be out looking for amphibians in your wildlife pond just after it gets dark if you want to say hello. See you.
Thankyou Nirmal yea the pond just get better every year hope your ok my friend ? 🐸💚🐸
Hi any thing spotted in nirmals wildlife pond ? 🐸💚🐸
@@UkAmphibians Hello again, mate. Yes, there are still Smooth Newts in there, just not as many as a few weeks ago. The females have finished egg-laying but one 'inflated' one I saw has a water retention problem. Tends to rectify itself in most cases. A couple of frogs in the pond still and I saw one by torchlight eating a worm with some effort. In case he doesn't get your notification, Nirmal told me he'd been lucky on his wildlife search in Bushy Park yesterday, finding another large Grass Snake (showed me images of the attractive specimen on his phone. Adult male most likely).
@CliveofEngland hi Clive thanks for replying sounds good that normal has found a grass snake too tell him to send me some pics on facebook be nice to see them 🐸💚🐸
Even in December there's amphibian activity in ponds if it stays mild enough. There are still invertebrates in the pond to forage for. As a kid, my favourite pond was in the woods at Oxshott near Esher and in summer this quite shallow pond was teeming with newts, efts and many invertebrate predators. In winter visits I'd net for newts and there'd be some still active in the cool water, including some paedomorphic efts which were the size of adults but kept the red gills - like a bunch of small axolotls.
If you expect freezing weather leading to icing of your pond, do you use the old trick of placing tennis balls on the water to provide easy holes for aerating the water? Don't want the 🐸hibernating in the pond to run out of oxygen or suffer from harmful gasses building up under a long-term iced pond. My Spanish Ribbed Newt survived two winters in the back garden pond quite well, even during a cold winter where the water iced over - growing to an impressive 10 inches and chunky with it. Although he took many amphibian tadpoles he was especially partial to earthworms I dropped to the pond bottom.
Hi Clive no I don’t bother with tennis balls in the pond they do fine if I just leave it iced over. I used to try the old trick with a pan of hot water and stand it in the ice but it soon freezes back over if it’s cold enough 🐸💚🐸