Album of Fort Flagler Field Trip

Selected photos from the spider collecting field trip to Fort Flagler at the north end of Marrowstone Island, Jefferson County, Washington in the second half of the 7 December 2007 field trip with Laurel Ramseyer and Rod Crawford. Photos by both, as credited. The forest habitat was of a common type, but thanks to the season, the maritime influence, and the large historic concrete Henry Bankhead gun battery bunker, we got 30 species in less than 2 hours at one site and 12 species in a few minutes at another. See this album for our visit the same day to Indian Island Park.
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aerial view (1990) of Henry Bankhead gun bunker, Fort Flagler, Marrowstone Island, Washington mixed forest with fern understory, Fort Flagler, Marrowstone Island, Washington
Henry Bankhead bunker, Fort Flagler  (USGS, 1990) Mixed forest with productive fern understory       © Rod Crawford
Ethobuella tuonops spider male Agelenidae from moss, Fort Flagler, Marrowstone Island, Washington bigleaf maple Acer macrophyllum trunk base, Fort Flagler, Marrowstone Island, Washington
Ethobuella tuonops male      © Rod Crawford Base of bigleaf maple with moss, litter      © Rod Crawford
Laurel Ramseyer sweeping ferns, Fort Flagler, Marrowstone Island, Washington sword fern Polystichum munitum, Fort Flagler, Marrowstone Island, Washington
Laurel sweeping ferns      © Rod Crawford Sword fern, Polystichum munitum           © Rod Crawford
Araneus diadematus cross spider orbweaver Araneidae female & egg sac, Fort Flagler, Marrowstone Island, Washington Henry Bankhead gun bunker, Fort Flagler, Marrowstone Island, Washington
Araneus diadematus with egg sac
© Laurel Ramseyer		 Historic gun battery bunker        © Laurel Ramseyer
Pityohyphantes rubrofasciatus Linyphiidae juvenile, Fort Flagler, Marrowstone Island, Washington Neriene digna female Linyphiidae, Fort Flagler, Marrowstone Island, Washington
Pityohyphantes rubrofasciatus    © Rod Crawford Neriene digna female                    © Rod Crawford
salal Gaultheria shallon understory, Fort Flagler, Marrowstone Island, Washington Neriene digna male Linyphiidae, Fort Flagler, Marrowstone Island, Washington
Salal understory          © Laurel Ramseyer Neriene digna male                   © Rod Crawford

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