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oh you have such cute froggies, and obliging too. i kepp trying to sneak up on the frogs in our pond but they just dissappear into the water. if you want to encourage newts having some king of plant with foldable leaves in the water might help, as both smooth and great cresteds lay their eggs in a leaf and then fold the leaf to cover it up. we have a weird grass plant that's colonising our wildlife pond (we keep it in check though) and we found newt eggs this year. no great cresteds, but smooth/palmate definitely!