My newts are thriving after the winter:
They're beautiful creatures, but I can't help missing the frogs that the newts appear to have displaced. Perhaps the frogs will make a return, though.
In other vertebrate news (vastly preferable to the actual news) we've been enjoying some spectacular bat activity these last few nights, with five or six pipistrelles above us at any one time. I'm still a newbie when it comes to bat identification, but we appear to have a mixture of common and soprano pipistrelles. You can read a bit more about our journey into bats here:
https://approachingpavonis.blogspot.com/2020/05/bat-tales.html
Outside my childhood home, we’d get bats during the summer, flitting among the green-leaved trees in the evening. It felt like they had the whole forest to themselves, and they were celebrating.
ReplyDeleteThank you for this post and reminding us of all the beautiful creatures!