Newt or lizard

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I was moving a rotten railway sleeper this morning and saw something move. On close inspection I thought it was a small dead lizard. I used a leaf to move it and it flipped over, revealing a spotted underside. Unbelievably, in one of the house bricks holes under where the sleeper was, I saw another one. I decided to put the spotted one in with the other, assuming they were male and female and put the sleeper back.
I've been told they are newts?
Size wise, they are about 2 or 3 inches long.
 

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Lovely photos Tweetipie. I expect they've been hibernating under the stones in your rockeries not yet fully awake and woken up if it was inactive. I think ours creep underneath the big ;flat stones round the edge of our pond. Do you have a pond? They emerge round about now and lay their eggs on water weed.
This is an interesting link https://www.arc-trust.org/pages/category/newts
 
How lovely, they look like smooth newts.
That's your reason to be cheerful for the day
 
Lovely. As kids in Harrow we could go to our local pond (Spring Pond) and catch newts to take home for our garden ponds. Not just smooth newts but great crested as well. Bet there’s none there now.
Also on a bit of a scrubby hill (The Mount) half a mile away we could catch slow worms. I don’t think I’ve seen one of those in fifty years.
I imagine, bym, that you have all three of those on your reserve.
 
We get lizards, but not newts, well we haven't come across any as yet. Pipistrelles been about for the last couple of days
 
I don't have a pond, Marigold, I keep telling the OH I would like one. I saw a frog in our garden today, too. I assume they make their way from the farm next door, as they have a pond, plus lots of countryside around with little streams. I love this time of year. Everything comes to life.
BYM - I thought it was a lizard, i wouldnt know the difference (she says embarrassingly). :-)
 
Nothing to be embarrassed about, that is the wonderful thing about nature, we all learn something new when we encounter something.
Now you can keep nagging for a pond, " give nature a home" tell him, and the exercise will be good
 
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