Collecting Crested Newts beside Trotshill Manor
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Collecting Crested Newts beside Trotshill Manor
Image: © Andrew Darge Taken: 15 Oct 2009
The whole perimeter of this small site for new houses was fitted with this plastic fence. Apparently a condition of the redevelopment was that these rare newts were collected and relocated. To this end a bucket was sunk to ground level every few yards around the whole site and inspected every day for newts.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.199229
Longitude
-2.170115
