Album of Gazzam Lake BioBlitz Field Trip

Selected photos by Rod Crawford from my participation in the Bainbridge Island BioBlitz, 30 May 2015. I sampled and recorded spiders and other invertebrates at Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve, southwest part of Bainbridge Island, Kitsap County, Washington with some help from Avery Bowron and Molly Esteve. In 8 hours I got 36 spider species (supplementing a 37-species sample from the NE part of the island in 1986). I recorded additional species that were either non-spider or not identifiable to species, totaling over 70 species of everything for the day. Best catch was a male Hypomma marxii from Spiraea foliage; second time in my life I've taken that rarity. Gazzam, Gazzam!
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2012 aerial photo of http://www.bi-landtrust.org/default.asp?ID=74 rich-looking understory shrubs, Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington
Lake at top center; first site, bottom    (Kitsap County, winter 2012) Rich-looking understory shrubs near south trailhead, not sampled         © Rod Crawford
spider Dirksia cinctipes from Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington lush understory at first BioBlitz site, Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington
Lovely Dirksia cinctipes         © Rod Crawford Lush green understory at first site              © Rod Crawford
bigleaf maple trunks, first BioBlitz site, Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington bigleaf maple canopy, first BioBlitz site, Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington
Bigleaf maple trunks           © Rod Crawford Canopy of maple forest          © Rod Crawford
bigleaf maple leaf litter, first BioBlitz site, Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington sifting leaf litter, first BioBlitz site, Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington
Particularly rich maple leaf litter        © Rod Crawford Leaf litter and moss sifting setup            © Rod Crawford
graffiti on old water tower, Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington erigonine microspider Zygottus corvallis, Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington
Graffiti on an old water tower         © Rod Crawford Zygottus corvallis microspider from leaf litter            © Rod Crawford
cobweb weaving spider Theridiidae male Thymoites camano, Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington linyphiid sheetweb spider Microeta viaria, Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington
Male Thymoites camano           © Rod Crawford Microneta viaria              © Rod Crawford
nettle Urtica urtica, Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington first meadow, Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington
Nettles were all too abundant          © Rod Crawford Meadow not as spider-rich as I hoped           © Rod Crawford
Molly Esteve, Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington hanging western hemlock foliage, first meadow, Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington
Hello, Miss Molly!               © Rod Crawford Hanging hemlock foliage, also not too productive           © Rod Crawford
second meadow, Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington large red cedar trunk Thuja plicata near lake, Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington
Second, similar small meadow              © Rod Crawford Impressive cedar trunk near lake access              © Rod Crawford
dome webs of Neriene litigiosa Linyphiidae by lake, Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington Marshy part of lake, Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington
Dome webs of Neriene litigiosa         © Rod Crawford Gazzam Lake is really more than half a marsh             © Rod Crawford
salal foliage by lake, Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington salal foliage by lake, Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington
Lakeside salal foliage…          © Rod Crawford …produced 13 identifiable spider species        © Rod Crawford
male microspider Hypomma marxii from lake Spiraea, Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington bench by lake, Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington
The day's best spider, Hypomma marxii      © Rod Crawford Lake-shore bench came in very handy             © Rod Crawford
lake-shore log, Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington Spiraea douglasii shrub zone, Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington
This log was a great help              © Rod Crawford I balanced on log out into Spiraea to get my Hypomma          © Rod Crawford
trail in Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington Close Beach, Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington
A long, long trail to the beach        © Rod Crawford What can I say? It's a beach             © Rod Crawford
hanging ivy, Close Beach, Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington hanging ivy and blackberry, Close Beach, Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington
Beach bluff foliage? Why, English ivy!        © Rod Crawford English Ivy and Himalayan Blackberry, that is!                © Rod Crawford
conglomerate beach bluff, Close Beach, Gazzam Lake Nature Preserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington Seattle skyline from Bainbridge Island ferry, 30 May 2015
Conglomerate of beach bluff     © Rod Crawford Coming home: Downtown Seattle from the ferry             © Rod Crawford
Mount Rainier from Bainbridge Island ferry, 30 May 2015 Sunset from downtown Seattle ferry terminal, 30 May 2015
Mt. Rainier behind Port of Seattle cranes   © Rod Crawford Sunset from downtown Seattle ferry terminal             © Rod Crawford

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