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Frog with a tail or Lizard?

  • 19-09-2014 9:50pm
    #1
    pawrick
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    Found a few of these guys around the driveway tonight along with lots of small frogs but never saw them before (I'm new in the area). Are they frogs yet to lose their tails?

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    [IMG][/img]20140919_215416_zps0roamlpb.jpg

    Btw left the 2nd one straight back to where I got him after taking the pic as I thought he was dead at first but was not. They were all about 2.5 to 3 inches long.


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  • #2
    Bonedigger
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    They're Common/Smooth Newts and the only species of newt found in Ireland.

    P.S. - They look like juvenile newts too.


  • #3
    pawrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭pawrick


    Bonedigger wrote: »
    They're Common/Smooth Newts and the only species of newt found in Ireland.

    P.S. - They look like juvenile newts too.

    Thanks for the info. had never seen them before growing up near Athlone and would never have thought to search for newts online. I'm living near lough ree now however with a large pond near the house also, maybe that accounts for seeing these now. Never seen so many frogs either but this seems to be the norm here when it rains at night.


  • #4
    Bonedigger
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    I see one or two from time to time here on the Curragh,in Co.Kildare.
    It might be worth submitting your sightings to the National Biodiversity Data Centre(just click on 'Submit Records' in the bottom right hand corner of this page - it's pretty straight forward): http://www.biodiversityireland.ie/


  • #5
    pawrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭pawrick


    Bonedigger wrote: »
    I see one or two from time to time here on the Curragh,in Co.Kildare.
    It might be worth submitting your sightings to the National Biodiversity Data Centre(just click on 'Submit Records' in the bottom right hand corner of this page - it's pretty straight forward): http://www.biodiversityireland.ie/

    will do tomorrow so. Went out again after your message and saw some smaller ones, there seems to be lots of them around the house. So that's shrews, long eared owls, birds of prey of some sort, hares, foxes, possible deer and hundreds of frogs I've see around the garden since moving here. Seems to be a good spot for wildlife.


  • #6
    Eddie B
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    Saw a few over the years around Athlone!:D


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