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Great Crested Newt Mini Mitigation |
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Herpetologic
Member Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 35 |
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Posted: 10 Oct 2003 at 11:42am |
Here is a picture of a raised flower bed which is actually a newt hibernacula - you can see the newt pond to the left corner. this is the new owner of the pond just weeding th eblanket weed out. there are no fish in this pond which has replaced the old concrete pond in the garden. Newts can back to the pond this year and I visited the pond this July and found some healthy GCN and SN larva. i am going to torch the pond in the spring 2004. I need to see at least 15 newts or more to establish if the population is growing. There are Common frogs and a resident Grass snake which has found the pond and uses the hibernacula probably as shelter. I hope to build another pond in this village as part of another mitigation project where a new house is going to be built with a grey water system with reed bed filtration and a lagoon designed for newts and other wildlife. |
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