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hubcap Member Joined: 14 Oct 2008 No. of posts: 2  View other posts in this topic |
Posted: 14 Oct 2008
Topic: newts and ducks
Hi Im not sure if this is the correct place to post, but am sure the moderators can move it if required. today whilst moving a wood stack in my garden i found 2 newts, initially i thought i had killed one as it was very still. But when i returned from showing the other one to my delighted daughter the first had moved a short distance to cover. I now know that to handle them is not necessarily the best way forward but my curiosity got the better of me. Anyway my kids want to keep them, is this such a bad thing? the other idea is that we have just rescued 2 young ducks for which we are about to dig a pond, would they(the newts!) have any chance of survival in this pond? or should i just let them go into some covered ground on the edge of the garden? Im not sure where they have come form as i am unaware of ponds near to us, however we do periodically find frogs in the garden, it is possible that many years ago there was a pond in our garden, would they still be returning for this? how can we keep track of them once they are released? |
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hubcap Member Joined: 14 Oct 2008 No. of posts: 2 View other posts in this topic |
Posted: 16 Oct 2008
Topic: newts and ducks
Thanks for the helpful information. The two ponds concept was my next idea, the second wouldn't need to be big would it? We have decided to keep the newts for a short while in a fish tank borrowed from the in-laws' the children seem really interested in them. I have put rain water in from a butt, and peashingle as land, with some rotting wood and some moss and turf as habitat, there are pleanty of bugs small worms etc coming out of the wood, is there anything else they will need? |
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