Album of Quiet Place Park Field Trip

Selected photos from a solo spider collecting trip to a quite nice forested park on the outskirts of Kingston on the Kitsap Peninsula. Nearly a month since the last dry-enough collecting weather, the spiders were still there. There was only a little blackberry, and habitats included Douglas-fir forest, maple forest, alder with a less familiar tree that turned out to be cascara, and a natural meadow with wild rose! The litter fauna was rich, and though each other habitat had relatively few species, the end result of a pleasant, solitary late-fall day was a 31-species catch. Photos by Rod Crawford.
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Aerial photo of Quiet Place Park, Kingston, Kitsap County, Washington Washington State Ferry approaches Kingston, Washington on 3 December 2009
Aerial view: park includes everything N of house/driveway & E of road. Open space is meadow – not lawn!   (Kitsap County) Ferry approaches Kingston dock             © Rod Crawford
female linyphiid micro-spider, Pelecopsis sculpta, from Quiet Place Park, Kingston, Kitsap County, Washington trailhead at Quiet Place Park, Kingston, Kitsap County, Washington
Pelecopsis sculpta (note dorsal shield)   © Rod Crawford Trail for barefoot boys?                 © Rod Crawford
leaf litter of bigleaf maple Acer macrophyllum, Quiet Place Park, Kingston, Kitsap County, Washington setup for sifting leaf litter, Quiet Place Park, Kingston, Kitsap County, Washington
Maple litter was very spider-rich here    © Rod Crawford Some cut log sections gave me a sifting platform     © Rod Crawford
trunk of bigleaf maple tree Acer macrophyllum, Quiet Place Park, Kingston, Kitsap County, Washington grove of bigleaf maple Acer macrophyllum, Quiet Place Park, Kingston, Kitsap County, Washington
This big maple produced my best litter    © Rod Crawford Why do leafless maples look like they're reaching for something?         © Rod Crawford
tree trunk with forest understory of salal and ferns, Quiet Place Park, Kingston, Kitsap County, Washington
How nice – a tree trunk with ferns instead of ivy!   © Rod Crawford Understory foliage produced an array of spiders           © Rod Crawford
"Fern Bowl" sign, Quiet Place Park, Kingston, Kitsap County, Washington pure stand of sword fern Polystichum munitum, Quiet Place Park, Kingston, Kitsap County, Washington
I wonder what teams play there?       © Rod Crawford Oh, so that's what the sign meant!         © Rod Crawford
Cut windfall log well provided with fungus, Quiet Place Park, Kingston, Kitsap County, Washington salal Gaultheria shallon in understory, Quiet Place Park, Kingston, Kitsap County, Washington
Fungus on cut side will turn log into spider habitat  © Rod Crawford Abundant salal makes for a nice, spider-rich understory      © Rod Crawford
mushrooms on cut log section, Quiet Place Park, Kingston, Kitsap County, Washington linyphiid micro-spider Bathyphantes orica female, Quiet Place Park, Kingston, Kitsap County, Washington
Shrooms on my sifting platform      © Rod Crawford Bathphantes orica female               © Rod Crawford
foliage of Douglas-fir Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quiet Place Park, Kingston, Kitsap County, Washington small lodgpole pine Pinus contorta in meadow, Quiet Place Park, Kingston, Kitsap County, Washington
Ever-reliable Douglas-fir foliage       © Rod Crawford Presence of lodgepole pine suggests meadow is natural      © Rod Crawford
Rose hips on wild rose, meadow, Quiet Place Park, Kingston, Kitsap County, Washington meadow with tall grass and rose thicket, Quiet Place Park, Kingston, Kitsap County, Washington
Stand of wild rose had nice hips       © Rod Crawford Tall-grass meadow in foreground, rose thicket behind        © Rod Crawford
face of linyphiid micro-spider Ceratinops inflatus, male, Quiet Place Park, Kingston, Kitsap County, Washington Fall bracken Pteridium aquilinum in meadow, Quiet Place Park, Kingston, Kitsap County, Washington
Face of male Ceratinops inflatus     © Rod Crawford Brown bracken in the meadow             © Rod Crawford
cascara tree Rhamnus purshiana (probably) with fall color, Quiet Place Park, Kingston, Kitsap County, Washington sunset on Ohio Avenue, Kingston, Washington on 3 December 2009
Cascara tree provided the main fall color     © Rod Crawford Not as colorful as the sunset, though       © Rod Crawford
male linyphiid micro-spider, Walckenaeria cornuella, Quiet Place Park, Kingston, Kitsap County, Washington state ferry leaving Kingston, Washington at dusk on 3 Dec. 2009
Male Walckenaeria cornuella     © Rod Crawford And so we say farewell to Kingston until another collecting day   © Rod Crawford

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