First Recorded

Look for active adults of any native species that have emerged from winter dormancy.

Recording this event requires you to be looking in local ponds fairly regularly during the early spring and taking note of the very first time you spot an adult newt in the pond that year after noticing their winter absence. You are most likely to see them in their breeding ponds, just after dusk when they are most active, between February to April.

Available historic data: we have some data from 1995-1999