Album of Brooklyn Road Field Trip

Selected photos by Rod Crawford from my 27 April 2023 spider collecting trip with Shane Sater to a point in the hills midway between the Garrard Creek Valley and our March-trip sites around Brooklyn. A variety of working-forest habitats proved productive, especially an alder-maple stand with some conifers and a diverse understory. With quite decent sift samples and reasonable success in other habitats, we ended the day with 46 species. Plus we achieved our secondary goal of showing Shane the ropes of spider collecting, and the unsuspected-by-most faunal diversity of cryptic habitats.
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Aerial photo of field site on Brooklyn Road in north Doty Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington Gate into Green diamond land, Brooklyn Road in north Doty Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington
Our site (in red) & surrounding terrain   (Grays Harbor County, 2016) Gate into Green Diamond clearcut                  © Rod Crawford
moss on alder trunk, Brooklyn Road in north Doty Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington alder leaf litter, Brooklyn Road in north Doty Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington
Moss on substantial alder trunk         © Rod Crawford Rich alder litter               © Rod Crawford
bigleaf maple tree, Brooklyn Road in north Doty Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington roadside grass, Brooklyn Road in north Doty Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington
Goodly bigleaf maple, not yet in leaf         © Rod Crawford Roadside grass, another good habitat                 © Rod Crawford
Male microspider Tapinocyba dietrichi, Brooklyn Road in north Doty Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington early spring maples & alders, Brooklyn Road in north Doty Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington
Male Tapinocyba dietrichi, oddly swept from roadside  © Rod Crawford Likewise other maples and alders not in leaf            © Rod Crawford
microspider Lepthyphantes tenuis from roadside, Brooklyn Road, N Doty Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington Theridion simile spider, Brooklyn Road, N Doty Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington
Lepthyphantes tenuis from roadside        © Rod Crawford Unusual color form of Theridion simile                  © Rod Crawford
white Trillium ovatum, Brooklyn Road, N Doty Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington edge of clearcut, Brooklyn Road, N Doty Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington
White trillium                      © Rod Crawford Edge of clearcut, down the road from gate                   © Rod Crawford
Oxalis oregana in understory, Brooklyn Road, N Doty Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington Oxalis and Dicentra in understory, Brooklyn Road, N Doty Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington
Oxalis oregana in understory   © Rod Crawford Herbaceous understory, mainly Dicentra and Oxalis              © Rod Crawford
sword fern understory, Brooklyn Road, N Doty Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington sword fern understory, Brooklyn Road, N Doty Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington
Sword fern hanging down a bank…  © Rod Crawford …one of the most spider-rich understory types             © Rod Crawford
Ribes shrub in bloom, Brooklyn Road, N Doty Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington Douglas-fir foliage, Brooklyn Road, N Doty Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington
Ribes shrub in full bloom          © Rod Crawford Spider-rich Douglas-fir foliage                 © Rod Crawford
Scots broom foliage, Brooklyn Road, N Doty Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington roadside mud, Brooklyn Road, N Doty Hills, Grays Harbor County, Washington
Broom foliage yielded some spiders        © Rod Crawford And Pardosa vancouveri were active on roadside mud     © Rod Crawford
sunset, south Seattle, 27 April 2023 sunset behind Olympics from Seattle, 27 April 2023
Sun sets behind south Seattle          © Rod Crawford Fading sunset silhouettes the Olympic Mountains           © Rod Crawford

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