As the only other time I’ve featured a newt on this blog was when a Moorhen at Cosmeston Lakes was in the throes of killing it (My first Palmate newt, 29 February 2024), I thought it would be nice to show a live newt.

I’m not sure which species of newt this was (it had a yellow belly, so possibly Palmate) but it was a delight to watch it, and several others of its kind, swimming, gliding, drifting, diving, all in a very restful kind of slow motion, in the dragonfly pond at Forest Farm Nature Reserve last week.