{"id":6165,"date":"2020-10-17T16:59:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T16:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6165"},"modified":"2020-10-17T16:59:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T16:59:16","slug":"a-newt-in-the-utility-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6165","title":{"rendered":"A newt in the utility room"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last night I went into our utility room and nearly trod on a small creature. Looking closely at it, it appears to be (to my novice eyes), a smooth newt – possibly a juvenile. How it got into the utility room I have no idea. Here are some photos I managed to take – these are handheld grab shots taken with my compact camera in poor lighting…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First shot of the newt in the utility room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Second view of the newt in the utility room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The newt on a path at the edge of the garden after being carefully moved. Taken by torchlight.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A second torchlight image of the newt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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The final torchlight image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Although these are grab shots of indifferent quality, they do show a little of the wildlife that is about a domestic environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night I went into our utility room and nearly trod on a small creature. Looking closely at it, it appears to be (to my novice eyes), a smooth newt – possibly a juvenile. How it got into the utility room I have no idea. Here are some photos I managed to take – these … Continue reading “A newt in the utility room”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-close-up","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6167,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165\/revisions\/6167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}