Kitbridge Great Crested Newt Reserve

I thought I would find out about the nature reserve that has been set up behind my housing estate.I must admit to ignorance of what it was all about until I looked on the internet!

Something I knew hardly anything about and right on my doorstep!

I can remember a few years ago when the estate contractors cleared the old location of wildlife to relocate to the reserve.

I suppose it is within the realms of possibility that a Great Crested Newt could wander over to my pond!

That really would be something!!

Here are a couple of links that explain it all:-

http://www2.btcv.org.uk/display/gh10_groups_else

http://www.hwt.org.uk/pages/wildlife-trust-pond-project.html

The newly created reserve in Jan 2007

and here it is today (8th Feb 2011)

Here is a photo to show the proximity of the reserve to the estate where I live (the reserve is on the far left over the fence).

 Rachel