newts in the trenches! - BAJR - 6th January 2013
Thanks Emma Turner for this.
The start of building work on a major new shopping development in York has been delayed due to a breeding newt population at the site.
Construction at Monks Cross was due to start this month, but developers Oakgate said the wet summer had meant a huge rise in newt numbers.
The great crested newt population had grown from nine to 300, said Oakgate.
"The two males and seven females, which have been found both this year and in previous surveys of newts at the Monks Cross site, have been using trenches dug as part of an archaeological dig in 2005 for breeding.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-20910702
newts in the trenches! - pdurdin - 6th January 2013
So even if there's no archaeological jobs going, graduates can get work digging newt homes?
newts in the trenches! - troll - 6th January 2013
Large Tefal, garlic, lemon, onions.
newts in the trenches! - kevin wooldridge - 6th January 2013
Bet now the developers wish they had backfilled those trenches from 2005....
newts in the trenches! - Dinosaur - 7th January 2013
That mean the unexcavated archaeology in the sides of the trenches has been left eroding for 7 years?! ....wonder what the winter of 2010/11 and recent rain has done to it :face-thinks:
newts in the trenches! - CARTOON REALITY - 7th January 2013
'Archaeologists Fuel Newt of Ill Repute Gang Bang.'
We won't come out of this debacle smelling of roses.
newts in the trenches! - P Prentice - 7th January 2013
is one of them called swampy?
newts in the trenches! - Dinosaur - 7th January 2013
pdurdin Wrote:So even if there's no archaeological jobs going, graduates can get work digging newt homes?
Or combine the two, you not done any hibernaculae? (think that was what they were called) - one to look forward to
newts in the trenches! - moreno - 7th January 2013
P Prentice Wrote:is one of them called swampy?
Swampy eh? That explains a lot, your age is showing.
newts in the trenches! - CARTOON REALITY - 8th January 2013
Quote:That explains a lot, your age is showing.
For Gawds sake tuck it back in.
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