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10-12-2009, 03:20 PM
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| | | Re: Salamanda
hello Maycliffe I don't think what you have here are Fire salamanders they only lay their eggs in the water. there are several oruental species that might fit your description where abouts is your industrial estate? |
10-12-2009, 03:25 PM
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Palmate newts are about half the size of smooth newts and nowhere near as colourfull,or as fussy where they breed, or indeed what they breed with! I've seen males trying to mate with great diving beetle larvae! palmates breed up here in puddles on mountain tracks. |
10-12-2009, 03:40 PM
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having reread the original post I think these were Great cresteds, and what this person regards as a great crested is actually a Smooth newt. |
11-12-2009, 05:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Adrian Vygus  hello Maycliffe I don't think what you have here are Fire salamanders they only lay their eggs in the water. there are several oruental species that might fit your description where abouts is your industrial estate? | Its Aycliffe industrial estate in county durham (DL5), it used to be a large bomb making area in the second world war. This was due to it being pretty boggy ground so lots of mist to conceal the factories. |
11-12-2009, 08:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Adrian Vygus having reread the original post I think these were Great cresteds, and what this person regards as a great crested is actually a Smooth newt. | I agree. I seem to recall that when I was young I thought smooth newts were great crested, until much later when I actually saw a great crested.
The ponds where kids paddle around fishing for newts are not likely habitats for great crested - they prefer much deeper water that is not often 'paddleable'.
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12-12-2009, 05:50 AM
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Originally Posted by macaycliffe Its Aycliffe industrial estate in county durham (DL5), it used to be a large bomb making area in the second world war. This was due to it being pretty boggy ground so lots of mist to conceal the factories. | Sounds great! have you been there lately? |
12-12-2009, 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Adrian Vygus Sounds great! have you been there lately? | I still live and work there but no sign of the salamnda's that I recall. A lot more industry there now, so the habitat has changed a bit. Although theres still a large expance of scrub land, that hasn't altered that much over the years. |
14-12-2009, 09:18 PM
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| | | Re: Salamanda
There have been escaped Fire Salamanders in this country but there are no confirmed breeding records, but they may well have done.
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