It is not only plants that are waking as the days lengthen and the air warms. This newt was roused from his slumbers in Max’s garden today, perhaps a tad prematurely. Fear not, soon he was safely relocated to a new home to wake gently. Later a big fat toad was found dozing in the wood pile and swiftly joined his fellow in Amphibian Towers. Others, such as chunky slugs and root chomping weevils, were met with a less compassionate welcome.
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We’ve got taddies swimming around in the bottom of the pond but I haven’t seen a newt for some time so thank-you for that picture.
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Just waiting for my little newts to appear amongst the flowerpots, not that they can eat all the slugs but I’m sure they help out a bit.
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Every little helps, the frogs, the toads, the thrushes ……
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We have no thrushes here, very sad, I miss them and wish we had a hungry pair, we have as many snails as slugs so they would get well fed.
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