Album of Lake Nahwatzel Field Trip

Selected photos by Rod Crawford from my 3 May 2015 spider collecting trip with Audrey Zehren to the north end of Lake Nahwatzel, Mason County, Washington. Having time for a second sample after Deckerville Swamp, we visited this curious-looking round clearing found on aerial photos, later finding that it was the site of a 2008 fatal plane crash. The dead fliers couldn't ask for a better memorial than this great spider habitat, where we took 38-39 species in a half day, some of them very uncommon!
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field site at north end of Lake Nahwatzel, Mason County, Washington 2011 aerial photo plane crash burn clearing, north end of Lake Nahwatzel, Mason County, Washington
Plane-crash clearing near north end of lake
(Mason County, 2011)		 I expected it to be a wetland; surprise, surprise       © Rod Crawford
complex ground surface, north end of Lake Nahwatzel, Mason County, Washington Douglas-fir foliage in clearing, north end of Lake Nahwatzel, Mason County, Washington
Complex ground surface, good for salticids  © Rod Crawford I beat 14 spider species from the fir foliage              © Rod Crawford
jumping spider salticid Evarcha proszynskii, north end of Lake Nahwatzel, Mason County, Washington crosses,
Evarcha proszynskii was common      © Rod Crawford Memorial crosses for Mark and Brian Storer        © Rod Crawford
cobweb weaver spider Theridion differens from north end of Lake Nahwatzel, Mason County, Washington edge of burn clearing, north end of Lake Nahwatzel, Mason County, Washington
Theridion differens, rare in western WA     © Rod Crawford Rich foliage at edge of clearing                © Rod Crawford
salal Gaultheria shallon in sun, north end of Lake Nahwatzel, Mason County, Washington salal Gaultheria shallon in shade, north end of Lake Nahwatzel, Mason County, Washington
Salal foliage in sun           © Rod Crawford Salal foliage in shade             © Rod Crawford
Scots broom Cytisus scoparius, north end of Lake Nahwatzel, Mason County, Washington juvenile crab spider Misumenops sp., north end of Lake Nahwatzel, Mason County, Washington
Even the Scots broom had good spiders    © Rod Crawford Unfortunately the only Misumenops specimen was juvenile    © Rod Crawford
lush foliage on bank of stream feeding into north end of Lake Nahwatzel, Mason County, Washington stream feeding into north end of Lake Nahwatzel, Mason County, Washington
Lush foliage on stream bank          © Rod Crawford Stream feeding into north end of the lake          © Rod Crawford
moss on tree, north end of Lake Nahwatzel, Mason County, Washington deciduous woodland patch at north end of Lake Nahwatzel, Mason County, Washington
Forest moss was good sifting         © Rod Crawford Patch of deciduous woodland               © Rod Crawford
big red cedar trunk, N end of Lake Nahwatzel, Mason County, Washingtom horizontal red cedar trunk, N end of Lake Nahwatzel, Mason County, Washingtom
Impressive red cedar trunk          © Rod Crawford Audrey admires a very strange red cedar         © Rod Crawford
spider Tetragnatha caudata swept from marsh, N end of Lake Nahwatzel, Mason County, Washingtom kayaker and marsh at N end of Lake Nahwatzel, Mason County, Washingtom
Wetland specialist Tetragnatha caudata      © Rod Crawford Behind the kayaker, marsh where Audrey swept rarities         © Rod Crawford
palps and chelicerae of spider Tetragnatha pallescens from N end of Lake Nahwatzel, Mason County, Washingtom trail to bathing beach, N end of Lake Nahwatzel, Mason County, Washingtom
Very rare Tetragnatha pallescens         © Rod Crawford I sifted alongside what turned out to be the Bikini Trail         © Rod Crawford
xystodesmid millipede Harpaphe haydeniana on ground, N end of Lake Nahwatzel, Mason County, Washingtom bathing beach, N end of Lake Nahwatzel, Mason County, Washingtom
Harpaphe haydeniana under cedars          © Rod Crawford The trail led to this bathing beach         © Rod Crawford
vine maple coming into leaf, N end of Lake Nahwatzel, Mason County, Washingtom sunset just south of Seattle viewed from I-5, 3 May 2015
Vine maple coming into leaf          © Rod Crawford Sun set just as we approached Seattle         © Rod Crawford

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