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ZEISS DTI thermal imaging cameras. For more discoveries at night, and during the day.
Pondlife
Smooth Newts, the lighter female is looking for suitable places to lay her eggs
and the male is sticking close, ready to fertilise them
Habitat
Garden pond
Location
Suffolk
Date taken
27.5.2017
Scientific name
Lissotriton vulgaris
Equipment used
eos7D /ef100f2.8 IS Macro
There's a park in California that closes its road to motorized traffic for a time each Spring so the newts can safely cross from the woods to the river, or perhaps to ponds near the river. I didn't go off trail to see where they were headed.
 

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