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Walking past my ponds as the light was fading I spotted something with a long tail lolopping across the surface of the duckweed. I felt sure it was a tadpole/froglet so I shot in and got my camera and managed this image. This pond has 100% duckweed cover so I never get views of the tadpoles I released in there, except little black bullet points across the pond where they are breathing on the surface.


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thanks suz. that was alonso:
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Lovely Tim! 
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Originally posted by will will wrote:

thanks for opening up the thread again Suz - especially that bit about newborn slowwworms which has a particular interest for me, it fits in with similar observations regarding adders and smooth snakes as you know.


Hi Will, Suz and everyone.

I too have been finding tiny slow worms for several weeks at multiple locations Will.
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Although it's been hot here in East Devon I think we've had it a bit cooler than many places. I looked under my covers at 5.15pm and was surprised to find small frogs and slow worms. We have often commented on here about finding herps under covers when it is hot enough to fry an egg on them. The toad wasn't there, but I've seen it there in hot conditions as well.



A few newts seen tonight. Here's one...
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Just before 9pm tonight I found these two toads under separate (by about just over a yard) covers. I took the photos with a flash. Not obvious from photos, but the redder toad is smaller than the other one.
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lovely toads suz

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Thanks Tim. At least they don't leap off like any frogs that use another cover. In fact the toads don't usually move at all. Most of my frog photos turn out to be blanks when I download them, or have a blur that was a frog.
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Borrowed this regular inhabitant from under its ACO this morning to show kids attending a Wildlife Trust Watch Group reptile walk on a farm knowing there was little chance of the kids actually seeing anything on the walk.

Didn't take a photograph this morning so this is one from last month.
However, when I returned the youngster later this afternoon a couple of slow-worms were sheltering under that ACO from the showers.
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Was out looking in my large pond the other night and saw a newt climbing out. Tonight between 11.30 and midnight I saw more newts in one evening than I think I've ever seen. Quite a few seemed intent on leaving the water and weren't too bothered by me photographing them. When I downloaded the images I spotted a froglet. The smaller pond had a frog by the edge and one in the water.
I am heartened to be finding baby frogs near the ponds in the vegetation recently.






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