Newt – Donich Website https://www.donich.co.uk Argyll wildlife and nature as seen on the banks of the Donich Water Wed, 08 Apr 2015 20:30:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.4 Active Pond https://www.donich.co.uk/blog/2015/04/07/active-pond/ https://www.donich.co.uk/blog/2015/04/07/active-pond/#respond Tue, 07 Apr 2015 19:54:25 +0000 http://www.donich.co.uk/?p=4474 R and I spent some time looking at the spring residents on our pond the other day.

Of course we have our heron (mentioned many times before) but also two ducks which I thought at one point were thinking about making a nest. The video shows some nice reflections as they come into land.

Then last night there were a variety of amphibians, two frogs locked in carnal enjoyment, several newts, and a large toad who tried to make a snack of one of the newts. Also water boatmen, bees in the heather, and the latest arrival – a peacock butterfly

]]> https://www.donich.co.uk/blog/2015/04/07/active-pond/feed/ 0 In which we meet a new addition to the Donich Wildlife https://www.donich.co.uk/blog/2014/04/16/in-which-we-meet-a-new-addition-to-the-donich-wildlife/ https://www.donich.co.uk/blog/2014/04/16/in-which-we-meet-a-new-addition-to-the-donich-wildlife/#respond Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:32:02 +0000 http://www.donich.co.uk/?p=2768 Right in the middle of the road outside – what should there be but a newt. They are supposed to be nocturnal and shy, but this fellow was up and about in the middle of the day and didn’t seem very scared of us. I was concerned that he might get run over so I carefully picked him up and conveyed him to the grass verge – whereupon he shot off at speed.

By a coincidence, later on that day we were looking in our pool and saw another newt (or maybe even the same one!) swimming along the bottom and eying up a juicy tadpole (of which there are now many).

Our pool is actually packed with wildlife – ducks, heron, otter, tadpoles, waterboatmen, pondskaters, frogs and now newts. Pretty sure that we will see some fine dragonflies later on in the year too.

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