We built a pond at my cousin's house which is on a
slope. Only a small pond but we had to terrace it a
fair bit, it looks great now.
I've only ever seen one toad in my garden, anybody
know how to attract them to my garden?
I'm afraid cats might be getting them as they are slow
movers.
--- Darrel Watts
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No cat in it's right mind would attack a toad, or at least only once!!
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----- Original Message -----
From: Gaz Elms
To: british_wildlife_gardening@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: [british_wildlife_gardening] Re: Newts (and toads)
We built a pond at my cousin's house which is on a
slope. Only a small pond but we had to terrace it a
fair bit, it looks great now.
I've only ever seen one toad in my garden, anybody
know how to attract them to my garden?
I'm afraid cats might be getting them as they are slow
movers.
--- Darrel Watts
> Hi All,
> Gaz, it was only that I know that GC Newts
> preferentially use
> Forget-me-nots to lay their eggs on.
> I'm just building a pond at home (Corsham, Wilts),
> and I hope it will
> have newts. I've been building it for quite a while
> as the garden is
> on a slope, which looks relatively gentle until you
> work out where
> level is, when it suddenly looks like the N. face of
> the Eiger.
> My next door neighbours pond has a large population
> of Smooth Newts,
> so I imagine they will find our pond fairly quickly.
> At work (BSU, Newton Park Campus) the one remaining
> wildlife pond has
> co-existing populations of all 3 newts species, with
> Palmate being the
> rare one in this area (Bath).
> cheers Darrel
> --- In british_wildlife_gardening@yahoogroups.com,
> Gaz Elms
>
> I wish! No they're smooth newts. There is an sssi
> nearby famous for great crested newts so I go
> there
> quite often to check out their ponds.
> My garden has had a pond in one form or another
> for 8
> years, but there were no newts at first.
> I slowly turned it into a wildlife pond mainly to
> attract newts. Now I have dozens of them. It used
> to
> be a fish pond when I moved in in 1999.
> How about your garden? Any newts?
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We had a cat that once brought a toad home, only the once mind! It was funny to watch her gagging because of the taste, and I swear the toad had a smug grin on his face. When we had calmed down we took the toad to a near by stream, and the cat never brought another one home to us, definately a case of once bitten twice shy.
Toads are fairly nomadic and don't tend to live near ponds, only visiting them to breed. You probably are being visited by toads without realising it. If your garden has lots of nooks and crannies in rockerys and log piles that will give them a cool damp place to rest in.
Jenny
----- Original Message ----
From: Gaz Elms
To: british_wildlife_gardening@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, 19 April, 2007 9:44:10 PM
Subject: Re: [british_wildlife_gardening] Re: Newts (and toads)
We built a pond at my cousin's house which is on a
slope. Only a small pond but we had to terrace it a
fair bit, it looks great now.
I've only ever seen one toad in my garden, anybody
know how to attract them to my garden?
I'm afraid cats might be getting them as they are slow
movers.
--- Darrel Watts
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