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Bubbles on surface of pond?
JodeJay
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Evening all, Excuse the daft q but I noticed small bubbles rising to the surface of my pond today and I've not seen this before. Do you think it could be underwater amphibians causing them? I've not seen any frogs but I do hear plopping noises when I approach so I assume that's them diving in. The frogs seem to be very quiet at the moment though. Think I've given them too many hiding places as I hardly see them whereas last year I had 5 frogs at this time. The pond is over a yr old now and I'm still to see any newts in it but I keep hoping that one will take a fancy to the pond.
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Might be the oxygenating plants making oxygen
In the sticks near Peterborough
Oh yes I didn't consider that. Thx
Hi,
I noticed the small bubbles in the pond but could not find anything, so I went out at night with a torch and found 15 newts lying just under the surface of the water, they seem more relaxed when it's dark, hope this helps.
I'm going to go out tonight when it's a bit darker and have a look. I would so love my little pond to attract a newt
I had all these bubbles coming up really quite a lot the other day, I put it down to the plants. lots of the mud from the bottom started to rise to the top with them and my pond looked very murky for a day or too, but then heavy rain fell and now it's back looking clear again. I would so love to see newts too, going to go out with a torch once it's settled a bit more.
Newts breed in water but they don't spend all their time in water.
Sometimes they lurk under seed trays
In the sticks near Peterborough
This was last summer's day time roost. On the shady side of the house, I never find any on the sunny side.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I've just found out that the site where I work has great crested newts (they've just had a survey pending a new workshop). I keep wondering if the bosses will think me mad if I ask if I can return in the evening to see if I can spot one or two!!