Newt Watch!

By Words | Published March 18, 2009

I went out to photograph the frog spawn tonight, but ended up concentrating on the newts which were showing more than a little interest in the arrival of large quantities of food!

newt and frog spawnSwimming in spawn

newt and frog spawnSwimming in spawn

newt and frog spawnNewt gathering

newt and frog spawnNewt gathering

newt and frog spawnNewt

There are more of the newts over on my other site.

Meanwhile, here's some more trail cam footage from last night. I re-positioned the camera to point down a little more. I suspect I missed a fair bit as several sequences were 'empty' (ie no fox). The last visit was after 4.00 in the morning. A black cat also showed up at around that time (but not included here).


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The fox videos are also on my other site. And to cap it all I just looked out of the window to see a cat racing out of the garden and a fox standing tall on the pond surround (nowhere near the trail cam, and he was off before I could grab the still camera).
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Camera note: all the newts were taken with the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro and EM-140 DG ring flash, manually focused.

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16 Comments

  1. Flying Red Fox Blog March 18, 2009 at 7:03 am #

    Nice photos, it looks like the fox was carrying something on the first sighting. 😀

    If its at 4am you stayed up late lol, a lot of Foxes are up early morning too.

  2. Words March 18, 2009 at 7:03 am #

    Mark, there is a small amount of food to bring the fox in front of the camera. And no I didn't stay up that late (or get up that early). I need my sleep :zzz:

  3. cakkleberrylane March 18, 2009 at 11:03 am #

    Very nice pictures of the newt. I'll have to wait to get onto a Windows computer to tsee the video though.

  4. Ukwildlife March 19, 2009 at 12:03 am #

    Nice newt photos. I managed to find a 'few' toads today but more on that later 🙂

  5. Vulpes vulpes March 19, 2009 at 1:03 am #

    Those newts look underfed…not! :chef:

  6. Cynthia23 March 19, 2009 at 3:03 am #

    These photos are really so amazing to me! Well done, Words!!

  7. annoushkiss March 20, 2009 at 4:03 pm #

    Very nice newt pictures :up: It was interesting watching them 🙂

  8. Words March 20, 2009 at 6:03 pm #

    Neil thanks. No toads round here (yet) but I always live in hope.

  9. Words March 20, 2009 at 6:03 pm #

    Lois thanks! Sorry about the video not being Mac compatible 🙁

  10. Words March 20, 2009 at 7:03 pm #

    Thanks Anna!

  11. Words March 20, 2009 at 7:03 pm #

    Vulpes, I think those are females who will be egg-laying imminently.

  12. Words March 20, 2009 at 7:03 pm #

    Thanks Cynthia!

  13. SittingFox March 22, 2009 at 2:03 pm #

    Great shots of the newts!

    I cannot seem to download the plugin for Windows Media Player no matter how many times I try :insane: I had to download this in Firefox in order to watch it. Anyway, nice clip :up:

  14. Words March 22, 2009 at 8:03 pm #

    Adele, thanks. The newts are fun! I'll try to sort out soemthing else for the videos. They don't seem to play well on here. They do seem to work fine over on my other site (on the video page). Maybe I'll check out Vimeo.

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  16. Words March 30, 2009 at 6:03 pm #

    Thanks! Anon.