common newt

How lovely.....lucky you!!

Thanks Linda, my kids were tickled pink :-)

Your very lucky, look after it. I think both our common and crested newt are now protected.

When we were kids there were loads of them in the canal near where we lived. We would take them home in a jam jar and have newt races. My dad would always return them back to the canal at the end of the day.

thanks Grannyb, i remember having loads in our pond at the park i lived in as a kid, but as you say this is the first i've seen in a very long time..

I certainly haven't seen one in years.

got to be over 20 years now i think probably more !

My OH has reminded me we used to have them in our pond at our old house. They seemed to like the silty end of the pond, and would cling to the pond weed.

ahh i have a bog garden that slopes and leads into the pond maybe it's because of that.

Marvellous! :-))

Thanks MW

Lucky you.

Thanks Clarice

Thats great bet your daughter was thrilled to find one

yes she was sixpence, we all were to be honest, been a very long time since i saw one...

:o)) some are now protected like the great crested ones.

that's right :-)

:o))

awesome!

Thanks :-)