Found this guy hiding under the recycle bin (Northumberland), what is he?

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  1. Great Crested Newt – FYI they are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, so be careful with the little guy.

  2. A newt, be careful with some they are very endangered. I lived on an army camp where the firing range shot over a small stream that had some very rare endangered newts in, that i brought to class one day, the teacher wasnt sure then the head was mortified and they were returned with an apology and a 2 week cease fire on the range while experts had a look.

  3. Embarrassed.

    He’s been telling everybody he was having it away with a butterfly in posh hotels.

    Not a two-legged beetle under a bin.

  4. My mates job is to check future building sites etc for them and relocate or rearrange work around any nest until after any potential young have left nests, there must be millions spent of tax money looking after these and other creatures and god knows how much lost from contractors whose jobs are held up haha

  5. I think his name is Trevor, he can be a bit of a dick but he’s nice when you get to know him.

  6. Beautiful, I have a few common newts in my garden, I plan on moving my pont this autumn, I hope they come back. I’m only moving it about 10 yards away, but the raised beds I have it in between are falling apart and it’s causing a danger

  7. Have to scoop these out of my room on a near daily basis and deposit them back outside. I’m in the cellar of an old house and they just kind of pop out of nowhere, I just look down sometimes and it’s like bam, two new suckers about to go through a religious experience while the giant hairless monkey takes em on the godexpress back to nature

  8. Yeah. I used to live next to a pond and it was full of these guys. Move it to somewhere safe.

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