New Species - Palmate Newt

I have seen newts in the first pond I built but just brief glimses and I never established whether they were Smooth Newts or Palmate Newts. That pond is looking very degraded now with the water largely drained due to animal tears in the lining but to my surpise there are four Palmate Newts in the tiny rigid plastic pond I installed in the route of the spring that runs when it rains. THe Palmates can be distinguished from Smooth Newts by looking at the undersides as the Palmates have unspotted throats. Also the males have webbed back feet and a filament emerging from their tail. Photo - Female Palmate.