Comments on: First report of Great Crested Newt deaths under the ice

By: Great Crested Newts get some sympathy in the (local) news « The Garden Pond Blog

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:39:05 +0000

[...] of sympathetic (if sad) coverage of crested newts getting into a local paper following the report here of Sally’s dead Great Crested Newts in her Shropshire [...]

By: Sally

Sally — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:40:17 +0000

I have just pulled more casualties from the pond, another 6 frogs and 4 newts.

By: Sally

Sally — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:11:46 +0000

I discovered tonight that this story was in our local paper last night!

By: Sally

Sally — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:25:19 +0000

The more I think about our pond deaths, the more I blame it on the length and severity of the big freeze. I suspect our snow cover was more like 2 weeks than 3, despite what I initially put on the survey. We had also left a lot of vegetation in the pond as half of the plants are due to move into pond 3. At present this is only half dug but it has been designed as a wildlife pond, rather than the pond in the photo which is a formal rectangle with steep sides that the wildlife decided was fine anyway! We also have a small preformed pond with no obvious casualties but I haven’t disturbed it to check in case it puts any living frogs at the bottom of the pond at risk.
I shall certainly start keeping daily records now!