Spring is in the air

[wargar]

I had a day off work today so I decided to give the garden pond a spruce up and clear all the fallen leaves ready for spring. As I was cleaning I came upon these three characters which I photographed before releasing back into the pond:







All Palmates (T Helvetius) a female and 2 males. Last year it was a lot colder and I didn't see any newts till the end of Feb.

I also found this under some leaf litter, it must be either a smooth newt or palmate. It was tiny.



Dave

 

[Azhael]

L.helveticus right on your garden...i´ve dreamt about that xD

 

[evut]

Fantastic! Could you post bigger pictures?

 

[wargar]

Fantastic! Could you post bigger pictures?

Sorry I'm a bit of a computor biff, if you go on this link you can enlarge them and there are a few more photos of them.

http://www.caudata.org/forum/members/wargar-albums-wargar-s-newts-salamanders.html

Dave