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Short 1 newt on my plot
« on: April 22, 2009, 14:02:50 »
had a fascinating time on the plotty this morning. I was preparing a new bed and Mr Blackbird was helping himself to whatever I'd dug up. I found another slow worm, so I covered it back up, and tried not to walk on that bit again. But I must have missed the newt. The blackbird didn't, he had a right old battle with it, but won in the end. I just sat back and watched the pair of them fight it out - then mid way thought ooh should I stop this, then thought no its nature doing what it knows. I guess it was the blackbirds lucky day?!

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Re: Short 1 newt on my plot
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2009, 15:20:59 »
I'd have stuck me oar in & chased the bird away... but I don't think there's a right or wrong with that - as you say, it is nature's way. I just prefer newts to blackbirds!

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Re: Short 1 newt on my plot
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2009, 15:44:01 »
Got to agree with you on prefering newts to the blackbird (bit rarer / special).
But I was being a bit dozy and didn't actually see what the blackbird was getting at until it was probably too late really and I saw the underside of the newt  :'(  and then at that point his tail fell off  :o
Next time I'll try and be a bit more vigilant!

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Re: Short 1 newt on my plot
« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2009, 16:19:49 »
I LOVE NEWTS  ;D

Me dear old dad's got a pond in his back garden that's absolutely TEEMING with them! And he knows where there are a fair few Greater Crested ones as well  ;)

I remember when I was a kid we used to go 'taddy and newting' in the pond at the farm across the way. I managed to breed a WHOLE baby-bath full of newts and they all survived  :D

Don't see them so much nowadays  :(
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Re: Short 1 newt on my plot
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2009, 16:36:47 »
They're ace aren't they - definitely prefer them alive tho  :)
They're new to me - never seen them before (in the wild as it is), so its been great up on the plot to find them, so you were lucky to see them around as a kid.
I've christened them all "Gussie" after Gussie Fink Nottle from the Jeeves and Wooster stories   ;D

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Re: Short 1 newt on my plot
« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2009, 16:40:58 »
I had a pair of newts once.

One was called John and the other was called Olivia........

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Re: Short 1 newt on my plot
« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2009, 16:46:24 »
 :P

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Re: Short 1 newt on my plot
« Reply #7 on: April 23, 2009, 17:02:45 »
And they got blown up by a Newtron bomb!
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Re: Short 1 newt on my plot
« Reply #8 on: April 27, 2009, 20:35:19 »
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