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    Posted: 23 Dec 2008 at 2:19pm
Tonight I saw a male GCN in my garden pond... the first time I've seen one before Christmas. Very mild temperatures for the last week with a minimum of 11C may have influenced this.
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Hi all , I too have got GCN males back in the pond up in Cumbria , no other species of triturus seen yet though.
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We had GCN eggs in a pond at New Romney, Kent, on 26 December 2008. They will have had a tough time with the weather since then.
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How often have surveys been undertaken during December to see if this is a recent occurence or has this been occurring anyway we just haven't been looking.....

 
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I suspect it has been going on for some time in south Kent . In the past 10 years I have heard of eggs at the same site on 1st January, and 11 years ago I used to get GCN's in the garden of our old property in Hawkhurst in late November/early December.

We don't have GCN's in the current garden pond, but smooths regularly start turning up in November - usually males. Ironically, despite the GCN eggs, my impression is that it has been a late season this year.

Newts seem to start and finish breeding very early on Romney Marsh, conspicuously earlier than newts further inland in the county but it is not something I have ever set out to quantify. Certainly at Dungeness,  in 2005 I had my highest count of GCN's for the year on 29 January!
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Back in the 80's in London my garden pond had male GCN in full breeding dress in early Jan; first eggs usually appeared in late Jan.  So I guess this has been going on for a couple of decades at least.  However the main cohort of adults - especially females - did not tend to arrive til a more traditional early to mid March.
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A friend of mine contacted me today to say that Smooth,Palmate and GCN were back in his pond and that the GCN males were half crested already.
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Just received a text from friend  to say the GCN are busy with their courtship displays
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Kevinb,

Roughly speaking is the pond on the south coast, the west coast, or more inland?
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In Gloucester
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