Pond Success !

As part of our Species Recovery Plan, and in part mitigation, SARG created a new pond in Winter 2005/6 at East Surrey Hospital adjacent to an ancient Great Crested Newt (GCN) pond where a few of these rare animals were just about hanging on from year to year.

A couple of adult GCN and a few common newts were recorded in this newly created pond in late Spring 2006.

This week we have seen a large number of GCN eggs around most of the new pond perimeter! This bodes well for the future of this population.



Great Crested Newt egg, picture by Tanja Kessels.