#newts

2025-07-07

You would wish that it wouldn't be necessary, but alas it seems it is. Thanks to @thewildlifetrusts for producing a report on the scale of impact of bats & newts on planning applications. Nature isn't the problem. wildlifetrusts.org/sites/defau #nature #bats #newts #planning

2025-06-28

Excellent signage at the towel hut at Lake Mohonk. There's a healthy population of eastern newts (Notophthalmus viridescens) at the beachfront and kids love to capture them in their buckets. #NewYork #NewPaltz #mohonk #lakes #art #salamanders #newts #nature

Dry erase board that says, "Hands off, salamanders (and all other wildlife) are not toys" and is illustrated with a larval salamander that has two exclamation points above its head.
2025-06-28

A newt stranded on the footpath alongside the Forth and Clyde Canal Glasgow that I can across on my run this morning. I moved it into the grass at the side, but at least two others I saw weren't so lucky. Not too sure if there's anything that can be done to prevent it, but it's quite a common occurence along this tow path.

#glasgow #forthandclydecanal #newts #urbanwildlife #urbannature #wildglasgow

A newt on a tarmac footpath alongside a canal in Glasgow.
2025-06-08

Here's the Wiki-page for the smooth newt: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth_n ❤️ #Newts

2025-06-08

I was thrilled to come across this juvenile smooth newt(?) whilst turning over the soil to plant onions on my friend's allotment this afternoon! I didn't like to disturb it more than I had to, so forgot to turn it over to check for their characteristic belly spots ⚫🟠 #UKNewts #Newts #Kent #England

A small brown newt (3cm long) on freshly turned soil. I'm pretty sure it's a smooth, or common newt (Lissotriton vulgaris), but I've read that they can be hard to tell apart at this age.

Rough-skinned newts, tetrodotoxin, and why some PNW garter snakes are poisonous but not venomous:

crookedtimber.org/2025/06/05/o

#Science #Nature #Biology #Ecology #Snakes #Newts

uncapybarableuncapybarable
2025-06-03
A bright orange nest on some green moss and leaf litter.
2025-05-16
Thought I'd try getting some photos of the #newts in the garden pond, and - while attempting to get my camera closer to the shy little amphibians without falling into said pond, the arthropods said hello again, with an absolutely massive hornet buzzing into view - which then landed on a lilypad and sipped daintly at the water...

#insects #hornets #macrophotography #Derbyshire
Striped, green-brown head of a newt, with an eye looking towards the camera, peering out from under a lilypad in a garden pond.A rather large brown and yellow hornet, wings a blur, caught flying above those sunlit lilypads.Getting closer to landing, the hornet casting an obvious shadow...Hornet on a lilypad - a very large brown and yellow insect, sipping daintily at the pond water.
kernpanik 🐾 🕊️ ☮kernpanik@chaos.social
2025-05-08

(part 2)

#photography #nature #wildlife #amphibians #newts #newt
(photos: @kernpanik | license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

A group of blue lizard-shaped amphibians with black-dotted yellow legs, feet, and crests on their backs in shallow greenish water.A brown lizard-shaped amphibian swims under the surface of greenish water.A group of one brown and two blue lizard-shaped amphibians in shallow greenish water.A blue lizard-shaped amphibian with black-dotted legs, feet, and crest on its back in shallow water over sandy ground.
kernpanik 🐾 🕊️ ☮kernpanik@chaos.social
2025-05-08

I went back to that pond today, this time equipped with two tele lenses and polarisation filters. :awesome:

#photography #nature #wildlife #amphibians #newts #newt
(photos: @kernpanik | license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

A blue lizard-shaped amphibian with yellow, black-dotted legs, feet, and crest on its back swims in shallow water over sandy ground.A blue lizard-shaped amphibian with yellow, black-dotted legs, feet, and crest on its back swims in shallow water over sandy ground.A greenish brown lizard-shaped amphibian with black dots swims in shallow water over sandy ground.A light-brown lizard-shaped amphibian swims below the surface of greenish water.
kernpanik 🐾 🕊️ ☮kernpanik@chaos.social
2025-05-07

I also saw these #newts (Ichthyosaura alpestris). I like newts! Need to return to their pond with a better lens.

(photos: @kernpanik | license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

Photo of a lizard like amphibious creature in a pond. The animal is blue with dotted skin on its legs, feet and crest on its back.Photo of a lizard like amphibious creature in a pond.Photo of two lizard like amphibious creatures in a pond.
2025-04-26

Today I did some 'pond dipping ': dragging a net through our tiny garden pond to see what's in there (as well as 100s of common frog tadpoles- see previous posts).
I fished out two newts and at first thought they were the usual smooth newts, also known as common newts, but it turns out they are palmate newts.
The 2 identifying features of this species are male has webbed rear feet and a spike on the end of his tail.
#amphibians #newts #gardenwildlife #gardens #wildlifegardening #ponds #pondlife

Male palmate newt, about 65 mm in length, showing webbed rear foot.Palmate newt, male, showing the spike or filament on the end of his tail.
naladahcnaladahc
2025-04-17

The come out at night. Mostly.

Steffens naturephotosSteffen.Faisst@pixelfed.social
2025-04-10
Smooth newt in a small pond in the forrest.
#wildlife #nature #naturephotography #amphibians #newts #underwater
2025-04-04

Habe mal getestet, meine ältere GoPro 8 ins Wasser zu halten.

Starring: Bergmolche 🦎️

Noch verbesserungswürdig, aber schon toll. Halbe Geschwindigkeit btw.

#Amphibians #Amphibien #Molche #Newts #Bergmolch #AlpinNewt

youtube.com/watch?v=yUwpF4qhZz

ghost with a camera 👻📷nisemikol@pixelfed.social
2025-04-04
Just another set of photos of that rough-skinned newt ([Taricha granulosa](https://w.wiki/CDdZ)) from the other day 🦎

#PNW #USA #WA #ThurstonCounty #CSF #Nature #Wildlife #Animals #Amphibians #Salamanders #Newts #Trails #TrailRunning #Outdoors #Photography #MobilePhotography
The image shows a rough-skinned newt on a forest floor. The amphibian has a textured skin and is dark with some orange coloring, particularly on its underside and limbs. The ground is covered with twigs, moss, and leaves.The image shows a rough-skinned newt on a forest floor. The newt has a bumpy, dark skin texture and is surrounded by twigs and bits of foliage.
ghost with a camera 👻📷nisemikol@pixelfed.social
2025-04-03
The image shows a rough-skinned newt on the forest floor, surrounded by twigs and moss.The image shows a rough-skinned newt on a forest floor. The newt has a textured, bumpy skin and a distinctive coloration, typically a dark body with a lighter underside. It's surrounded by natural elements like twigs and moss.

The California newt (Taricha torosa) emerges with the rains, trekking to ponds and streams to breed. Its bright orange belly warns predators of its potent toxin—tetrodotoxin, the same deadly compound found in pufferfish. Look closely for newts and egg sacs!

#wildlife #california #nature #newts

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