The newt is so beautiful…first time seeing one from the UK. She looked so happy in the water! Love lizards…I’m 73 and as a child we lived in East Texas where there were lots of Horned toads…lizards actually with spikes all over them. Sadly they are much rarer now. Wonderful creatures.
@@ReptiChat I first discovered newts as a boy and I am currently 71, so have had a love of amphibians and nature a very long time. I am also a member of SAVE THE FROGS! The stripe in the tail is one of the signs you look for in the male, and in the breeding season it becomes wider, and the crest grows much higher. It also develops a crest on its tail. I can tell you too that this species of newt tend to use the same ponds or lakes, though in this case it sounded as if it had already been accidentally moved. This is a problem for this species and same goes for the Common Toad that returns to the same breeding sites.
Thanks! I didn't know that! Yep, unfortunately this one was moved on a huge pile of old pallets hence NCRW advising me to relocate him to my pond at home. Hopefully he is doing well, I haven't seen any sign of him since relocating but hopefully that's a good thing and he has settled in nicely!
@@ReptiChat Great Crested Newts spend more time in the water than the other species but if they leave the water and come on land they start to lose their aquatic phase appearance and become the terrestrial form. In this species its crest would almost disappear leaving just a ridge line along the back. It will not grow again until the next breeding season. For some reason this male newt was already on land in the pallettes. What will happen now is difficult to say. If he feels the urge to go back to the pond he was in before he will leave to attempt to find it, if he feels he has finished with the aquatic phase for this year he will leave the water but remain somewhere in the vicinity of your pond, if you are lucky he will decide to stay in the pond you have provided a bit longer, in which case he may grow his crest again and will be on the lookout for females of his species. Whatever happens he will leave the water either sooner or later this summer. This newt hibernates on land, as do the other British species. They live on land for a few months before hibernation.
Not sure if you are referring to the smooth snake or the great crested newt. The smooth snake we left as soon as we saw it. The great crested newt I had permission to relocate it as there was a risk of danger to Life where I found it.
The newt is so beautiful…first time seeing one from the UK. She looked so happy in the water! Love lizards…I’m 73 and as a child we lived in East Texas where there were lots of Horned toads…lizards actually with spikes all over them. Sadly they are much rarer now. Wonderful creatures.
Thank you! ❤️
Aww i love great crested newts. I've only ever found one
It was really cool!
They live in woods/leaf kitter only go to ponds to breed like frogs & toads
Plenty of woodland behind my house 🙏
Great video
Thank you! ❤️
Nice. When is the vivvisions herping collab??
Who knows! 🤷♂️
Great episode
Thanks mate!
Awesome video 🎉
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
Did you snowboard there!!! Shades have it away
😅 gotta love some pitvipers!
Brilliant!
Thank you! ❤️
It is a male Great Crested Newt surely with the bluish white stripe in the tail? In the water I can see its crest too.
Possibly, I was under the impression it was female but I could be wrong!
@@ReptiChat I first discovered newts as a boy and I am currently 71, so have had a love of amphibians and nature a very long time. I am also a member of SAVE THE FROGS! The stripe in the tail is one of the signs you look for in the male, and in the breeding season it becomes wider, and the crest grows much higher. It also develops a crest on its tail. I can tell you too that this species of newt tend to use the same ponds or lakes, though in this case it sounded as if it had already been accidentally moved. This is a problem for this species and same goes for the Common Toad that returns to the same breeding sites.
Thanks! I didn't know that! Yep, unfortunately this one was moved on a huge pile of old pallets hence NCRW advising me to relocate him to my pond at home. Hopefully he is doing well, I haven't seen any sign of him since relocating but hopefully that's a good thing and he has settled in nicely!
@@ReptiChat Great Crested Newts spend more time in the water than the other species but if they leave the water and come on land they start to lose their aquatic phase appearance and become the terrestrial form. In this species its crest would almost disappear leaving just a ridge line along the back. It will not grow again until the next breeding season. For some reason this male newt was already on land in the pallettes. What will happen now is difficult to say. If he feels the urge to go back to the pond he was in before he will leave to attempt to find it, if he feels he has finished with the aquatic phase for this year he will leave the water but remain somewhere in the vicinity of your pond, if you are lucky he will decide to stay in the pond you have provided a bit longer, in which case he may grow his crest again and will be on the lookout for females of his species. Whatever happens he will leave the water either sooner or later this summer. This newt hibernates on land, as do the other British species. They live on land for a few months before hibernation.
@@bardofely well I have learnt something new today! Thanks for taking the time to comment!
Definitely a Male newt
its illegal to disturnb them or to remove them also to desturb where they live
Not sure if you are referring to the smooth snake or the great crested newt. The smooth snake we left as soon as we saw it. The great crested newt I had permission to relocate it as there was a risk of danger to Life where I found it.
wow this place looks familiar🤪
I know right! How odd 😅
No slow worms? Used to find these as a kid (30 years ago) but never failed to find them.
None at all! But never fear I still have time to find them!