Album of Ryderwood Pond Field Trip

Selected photos by Rod Crawford and Laurel Ramseyer from our 1 April 2024 spider collecting trip (with Kathy Whaley) to the town of Ryderwood, Cowlitz County, Washington. We collected around Ryderwood Pond, the only quasi- public access place in the vicinity. The local residents (all retired) created the pond by damming Campbell Creek, so they would have a place to fish! There was some pretty fair habitat but also some destroyed by blackberry; three of us collecting managed 34 species, including a couple that I don't immediately recognize.
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Ryderwood and Ryderwood Pond, Cowlitz County, Washington, 2021 aerial photo dike-like dam between Campbell Creek and Ryderwood Pond, Cowlitz County, Washington,
The town & the pond; our main site in red     (Cowlitz County, 2021) Dike-like dam holds the pond back from the creek                © Rod Crawford
new-grown grass, Ryderwood Pond, Cowlitz County, Washington, footbridge over creek below Ryderwood Pond, Cowlitz County, Washington
New-grown grass yielded very little to sweeping    © Rod Crawford Footbridge over creek below the pond                   © Rod Crawford
penultimate male Ozyptila pacifica, Ryderwood Pond, Cowlitz County, Washington fern understory, Ryderwood Pond, Cowlitz County, Washington
Penultimate male Ozyptila        © Rod Crawford Fern understory, our most productive habitat                   © Rod Crawford
male spider Zygottus corvallis from leaf litter, Ryderwood Pond, Cowlitz County, Washington grass understory of alder stand, Ryderwood Pond, Cowlitz County, Washington
Zygottus corvallis from leaf litter           © Rod Crawford Grass (spiderless) in understory of leafless alders           © Rod Crawford
sifting litter on picnic table, Ryderwood Pond, Cowlitz County, Washington alder leaf litter, Ryderwood Pond, Cowlitz County, Washington
Sifting litter on a blessed pic-i-nic table!    © Rod Crawford Mainly-alder leaf litter in place                      © Rod Crawford
placid surface of Ryderwood Pond, Cowlitz County, Washington aeration of Ryderwood Pond, Cowlitz County, Washington
Placid surface of pond…            © Rod Crawford …the next minute, an arfiticial geyser!                    © Rod Crawford
spider Grammonota kincaidi from conifers, Ryderwood Pond, Cowlitz County, Washington salal, Ryderwood Pond, Cowlitz County, Washington
Kathy's Grammonota kincaidi              © Rod Crawford Salal foliage in forest                    © Laurel Ramseyer
mule deer in woods, Ryderwood Pond, Cowlitz County, Washington habitat-destroying blackberry, Ryderwood Pond, Cowlitz County, Washington
Oh, deer                 © Laurel Ramseyer Habitat-destroying blackberry                        © Rod Crawford
Canada geese on Ryderwood Pond, Cowlitz County, Washington Slope of Pumphrey Mountain from Ryderwood Pond, Cowlitz County, Washington
Honk, honk                   © Rod Crawford Slope of Pumphrey Mountain past south end of pond      © Laurel Ramseyer
canada goose on land, Ryderwood Pond, Cowlitz County, Washington grassy marsh, Ryderwood Pond, Cowlitz County, Washington
Big Honk comes on shore          © Laurel Ramseyer Grassy marsh produced one good spider                © Laurel Ramseyer
spider Tibellus oblongus on cattail, Ryderwood Pond, Cowlitz County, Washington cattail marsh, Ryderwood Pond, Cowlitz County, Washington
Tibellus oblongus on cattail           © Laurel Ramseyer Cattail marsh, mostly inaccessible                    © Laurel Ramseyer
early spring Trillium ovatum at Ryderwood Pond, Cowlitz County, Washington low bluff along Campbell Creek, Ryderwood Pond, Cowlitz County, Washington
Trillium somehow slipped between the blackberries © Laurel Ramseyer Low bluff along upper course of Campbell Creek              © Laurel Ramseyer
Nicrophorus burying beetle, Ryderwood Pond, Cowlitz County, Washington Campbell Creek above Ryderwood Pond, Cowlitz County, Washington
Nicrophorus burying beetle           © Laurel Ramseyer Up the creek, but not without a gravel bar                 © Laurel Ramseyer
mixed species understory, Ryderwood Pond, Cowlitz County, Washington carapace of male spider Walckenaeria sp., Ryderwood Pond, Cowlitz County, Washington
Mixed understory in forest             © Laurel Ramseyer Carapace of unusual male Walckenaeria                  © Rod Crawford
sunset from south Seattle, 1 April 2024 sunset from south Seattle, 1 April 2024
Sun nearly-set behind The Brothers       © Rod Crawford Sun sets as we near home               © Rod Crawford

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