Album of Palmer Creek Field Trip

Selected photos by Rod Crawford and Della Scott from our 30 September 2022 spider collecting trip to Palmer Creek, east central Snohomish County, Washington. The most easily reached remaining site, we reached it without glitches and found that, as hoped, the first fall rain had made leaf litter moist, though moss was still dry. With 17 species from our main site on the creek (no bridge, just a culvert) and 10 more from a higher site with lots of roadside hemlock to beat, I alone collected 27 species in a nice, peaceful spot in ideal weather.
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spider collecting sites on Palmer Creek, eastern Snohomish County, Washington forest road crossing Palmer Creek, eastern Snohomish County, Washington
Our sites shown in red      (Snohomish County, 2020) Forest Road 4065 crosses Palmer Creek              © Rod Crawford
zipcar parked beside Palmer Creek, eastern Snohomish County, Washington Palmer Creek, eastern Snohomish County, Washington
Della and the Zipcar in our parking spot   © Rod Crawford Palmer Creek at minimum flow                    © Rod Crawford
culvert where Road 4065 crosses Palmer Creek, eastern Snohomish County, Washington culvert where Road 4065 crosses Palmer Creek, eastern Snohomish County, Washington
Light at the end of the tunnel          © Rod Craword No bridge at this creek crossing, just a mere culvert            © Rod Crawford
alder forest canopy, Palmer Creek, east central Snohomish County, Washington western hemlock Tsuga heterophylla foliage, Palmer Creek, east central Snohomish County, Washington
Alder canopy                 © Rod Crawford Western hemlock in the understory                          © Rod Crawford
pocket of leaf litter, Palmer Creek, east central Snohomish County, Washington gravel bar of Palmer Creek, east central Snohomish County, Washington
Leaf litter in little pockets among rocks     © Rod Crawford Palmer Creek's fine-scale gravel bar               © Rod Crawford
moss on alder trunk, Palmer Creek, east central Snohomish County, Washington Rod gathering moss to sift, Palmer Creek, east central Snohomish County, Washington
Moss on alder trunk               © Rod Crawford The moss gatherer                    © Della Scott
Rod preparing moss to sift, Palmer Creek, east central Snohomish County, Washington moss in mid-sift, Palmer Creek, east central Snohomish County, Washington
Preparing moss for sifting             © Della Scott A load of moss in mid-sift                     © Rod Crawford
collecting spiders tapped from wood, Palmer Creek, east central Snohomish County, Washington dead wood spider habitat, Palmer Creek, east central Snohomish County, Washington
Collecting spiders tapped from wood      © Della Scott Plenty of dead wood spider habitat                   © Rod Crawford

For our last hour, we drove up the road to a better conifer-foliage habitat.

Rod noting GPS coordinates of new site, Road 4065 above Palmer Creek, east central Snohomish County, Washington dry wash and western hemlock foliage, Road 4065 above Palmer Creek, east central Snohomish County, Washington
First, to figure out where we are now        © Della Scott Roadside hemlock foliage hangs over a dry wash         © Rod Crawford
Mountain above us, maybe Morning Star Peak, Road 4065 above Palmer Creek, east central Snohomish County, Washington Rod beating western hemlock foliage, Road 4065 above Palmer Creek, east central Snohomish County, Washington
Possibly Morning Star Peak                 © Della Scott Rod beating tree foliage                         © Della Scott
Rod beating western hemlock foliage, Road 4065 above Palmer Creek, east central Snohomish County, Washington crab spider Xysticus montanensis, Road 4065 above Palmer Creek, east central Snohomish County, Washington
And beating more tree foliage              © Della Scott Xysticus montanensis                     © Rod Crawford
roadside grass, Road 4065 above Palmer Creek, east central Snohomish County, Washington roadside grass, Road 4065 above Palmer Creek, east central Snohomish County, Washington
Roadside grass (short)                    © Rod Crawford Roadside grass (tall)                         © Rod Crawford
mountain, possibly Vesper Peak, from Mountain Loop Highway sunset from near Granite Falls, Washington on 30 September 2022
Possibly Vesper Peak, from highway       © Rod Crawford Sunset from near Granite Falls                 © Rod Crawford
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