newts in the trenches!

[BAJR]

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-yor...e-20910702

[pdurdin]

So even if there's no archaeological jobs going, graduates can get work digging newt homes?

[troll]

Large Tefal, garlic, lemon, onions.

[kevin wooldridge]

Bet now the developers wish they had backfilled those trenches from 2005....

[Dinosaur]

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:

[CARTOON REALITY]

'Archaeologists Fuel Newt of Ill Repute Gang Bang.'

We won't come out of this debacle smelling of roses.

[P Prentice]

is one of them called swampy?

[Dinosaur]

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

[moreno]

is one of them called swampy?

Swampy eh? That explains a lot, your age is showing.

[CARTOON REALITY]

That explains a lot, your age is showing.

For Gawds sake tuck it back in.