Smooth Newts on Springwatch (2022) 

I FREAKING LOVE NEWTS

I found 3 little sisters curled up under a rotting piece of wood in my garden. They now dwell in an ideal small pond I made x

Although common newts are still er..common, I've only found crested newts 3 times since I first saw one in my teens. It's likely habitat loss causing our amphibian to become less widespread as many of the ponds I knew locally are long gone or dug out and filled with fish. There was a deep pond on the common here where one day I netted over 100 newts with the help of two pals. There were plentiful frogs there too. After one likely deliberate chemical dumping the entire pond ecosystem was destroyed. I remembered being upset by the sight of rows of dead frogs arranged around the pond and a skull-bearing warning sign installed by it. Then, the pond and my pond dipping memories were gone. Nostalgia, eh?

Just found 2 smooth newts under the flags of my garden path

Fabulous! Do you still have your Pool Frogs?

For many years I had a large pond, maybe because I had very large Koi Carp and they would eat everything, but I never once saw a newt. (Actually saw one koi with the head and front legs of a large frog poking out of her mouth) Anyway in the years since removing the pond I regularly have a newt visitor on my patio throughout the evening and night. I named her Tiny..... Because she my newt😂 Every night when the dogs need the garden I go out first to see if she is there. If she is I carefully move her to safety using a piece of thin rigid plastic.

i live in holland every summer i have smooth newts in my pond..fantastic

Super video! 👍

I've got 20 great cresteds in my pond. I supplement their natural food with earthworms. They eat till they're bursting

Great upload, thank you 👍

Newts are so cute. I want to kiss them.

Is the plant it laid its egg in rigid hornwort?

I kidnapped two of these in nature.. I'll bring them back out again after the winter.