Album of Sandy Point Field Trip

Selected photos (by Laurel Ramseyer and Rod Crawford) from an "accidental" spider collecting trip to forest and beach habitats at Sandy Point, north of Olympia at the south end of Puget Sound. Not our intended destination, a lack of fuel forced us to collect where we happened to be or no place. Fortunately, the coastal environment had prevented habitats from drying out too much and we managed to get 34 species, very good indeed for the lowlands in July, and with a few interesting records and range extensions.
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2006 aerial photo of Sandy Point area, Thurston County, Washington unidentified trailhead, Sandy Point area, Thurston County, Washington
Aerial view of Sandy Point collecting area    (Thurston County, 2006) Mysterious unidentified (but clearly public) trailhead       © Rod Crawford
mossy alder trunk, Sandy Point area, Thurston County, Washington unidentified public trail in littoral forest, Sandy Point area, Thurston County, Washington
Mossy alder trunk             © Rod Crawford Trail continues through littoral alder forest      © Rod Crawford
alder leaf litter in littoral forest, Sandy Point area, Thurston County, Washington littoral forest with alder and maple, Sandy Point area, Thurston County, Washington
Alder litter produced a few spiders      © Rod Crawford General view of the lush littoral forest           © Rod Crawford
tall grass in forest glade, Sandy Point area, Thurston County, Washington forest glade in former powerline clearing, Sandy Point area, Thurston County, Washington
Small grassy habitats in glade & roadside     © Rod Crawford Small glade was once part of a powerline clearing            © Rod Crawford
tall understory of littoral forest, Sandy Point area, Thurston County, Washington Polystichum munitum understory in maple grove, Sandy Point area, Thurston County, Washington
Tall, dense littoral forest understory      © Laurel Ramseyer Fern-rich understory in maple grove            © Rod Crawford
trunk of bigleaf maple Acer macrophyllum, Sandy Point area, Thurston County, Washington bigleaf maple Acer macrophyllum grove, Sandy Point area, Thurston County, Washington
Symmetrical divided maple trunk       © Rod Crawford Different habitats in bluff-top maple grove           © Rod Crawford
bigleaf maple leaf litter Acer macrophyllum, Sandy Point area, Thurston County, Washington Carex lyngbyei marsh on shaded part of beach, Sandy Point area, Thurston County, Washington
Maple litter had completely different spiders © Rod Crawford Shady part of beach supports sedge marsh               © Rod Crawford
sedge Carex lyngbyei on beach, Sandy Point area, Thurston County, Washington beach meadow on sandy beach, Sandy Point area, Thurston County, Washington
Carex lyngbyei filled marshy spots on beach © Rod Crawford True beach meadow habitat had limited extent          © Rod Crawford
log and sword fern Polystichum munitum in forest, Sandy Point area, Thurston County, Washington bigleaf maple tree Acer macrophyllum shading beach, Sandy Point area, Thurston County, Washington
Large log and fern in forest        © Laurel Ramseyer Maple tree shading beach produced interesting spiders       © Laurel Ramseyer
western hemlock Tsuga heterophylla foliage, Sandy Point area, Thurston County, Washington Puget Sound gumweed
Western hemlock foliage, ever-reliable habitat      © Laurel Ramseyer Puget Sound Gumweed, an actual native plant         © Rod Crawford
coast elderberry Sambucus racemosa in berry, Sandy Point area, Thurston County, Washington vegetation on beach bluff, Sandy Point area, Thurston County, Washington
Elderberry was very common in forest & glades     © Laurel Ramseyer Foliage hanging down beach bluff: reliable spider habitat     © Rod Crawford

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