View from Oban Bothy

View from Oban Bothy

Tuesday, 7 April 2015

Tuesday 7th April, Canal Towpath Wildlife

Cycling down the towpath of the Bridgewater Canal (The Duke’s Cut) this morning I spotted what I thought was a leaf blowing in the wind ahead of me. Except there was no wind:

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Not the best photograph, it was taken with the camera on my Samsung Mini S3 Batphone.

4 comments:

  1. Looks like a big newt but scale a bit difficult to determine. Were you frightened?

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    1. Terrified! ;-)

      It was about 5" long, nose to tail. At first I thought it was a newt but the lack of webbed feet and pointy tail suggested otherwise, to me at any rate. I'm by no means an expert though.

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  2. Well spotted JJ.

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