Steve at Eccup Whin
In spite of a late night (watching the Eurovision Song Contest), your correspondent was up at 6 am to meet Steve Joul at Eccup Whin to examine the contents of the newt traps set in the pond there last night.
Steve was just examining the last of the nine traps when your correspondent arrived. But what had he found? All will be revealed later in this blog!
As we left we heard once more the evocative sound of the curlew bubbling from the adjoining field – listen to the sound of the curlew at the RSPB website: http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/c/curlew/index.aspx
Thence to Old Leo’s car park for 7 am where we met up with a magnificent convocation of like minded empathy – including two new Friends – determined to take part in our Newtfari.
We made our way down to Adel pond and systematically examined the contents of our twelve traps. Amazingly, we had caught eighteen newts in all, one trap containing four.
The precise results were as follows (treating the pond as the face of a clock and the incoming stream as 12 noon):
Results of newt survey
Our catch at Adel Pond
Having completed our survey, and returned the newts to the pond, some of us set off home for breakfast, while others of us returned to Old Leo’s carpark to have a look at the newts temporarily transported from Eccup Whin. Steve was able to reveal that we had captured five palmate newts there.
Thence home to breakfast – Steve to return the Eccup Whin newts to their pond.
Thank you to Steve and to everyone who made our second newtfari such a great success!
Friends of Adel Woods 