Newts have appeared in our pond for the first time this year. As the weather has been so consistently mild we have been checking regularly to see how early they would put in an appearance and we had our first sightings today. They are Smooth Newts, Triturus vulgaris and they have been turning up in our pond every year for many years. Last year we had a peak count of about ten. Occasionally I turn up young ones in the garden in soil or under flower pots. Our sightings were very brief and I was unable to tell which sex any of them were; apparently the males usually turn up first.
There were also a couple of large Water Boatmen, probably Corixa sp. swimming up to the surface and back down to the depths again.
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