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Nice surprise

Paul Iddon

Paul Iddon

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In the first fortnight of February, i got a nice surprise when I went hunting around the garden looking for springtails (found one, hard to get though as usual...)

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Anyway, I was instead delighted to discover a bonus visitor - which I assume, as it was on the door of the recycling bin, that it went back into after I took a few photos (I went back to the computer to upload and check them - and when I went back out it had disappeared...)

We do have a very small pond but that is 4 metres away from where I found this wonderful smooth newt, and is the first one I have seen in my garden for many years!

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I offered it a worm to see if it might be tempted to have a snack, but the worm went its own merry way...

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Paul.
 
Paul Iddon

Paul Iddon

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Must not have been hungry. On land it eats insects, slugs and worms. In the water they hunt insects, tadpoles, water snails and small crustaceans, such as shrimps.

Paul.
 
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