Album of Catherine Creek Park Field Trip

Selected photos from a spider collecting field trip to Catherine Creek Park and Centennial Woods (both city parks), city of Lake Stevens, Snohomish County, Washington, on 14 November 2006. Not the best of weather as it turned out, but the trip produced a (barely) adequate sample. See this city page for brief descriptions of the parks. Catherine Creek Park is a mature conifer forest that has been groomed into a "disk golf" course. If, like me, you'd never heard of this game, see here. Adjacent Centennial Woods is mixed second growth, swampy, and needs a lot of work to remove invasive plants, but still has good habitat patches. Photos by Rod Crawford.
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entrance sign, Catherine Creek Park and disc golf course, Lake Stevens, Snohomish County, Washington dead wood (stump and snags), Catherine Creek Park, Lake Stevens, Snohomish County, Washington
Park sign clearly sets priorities    © Rod Crawford Dead wood in the forest gloom               © Rod Crawford
trunk of Douglas-fir Pseudotsuga menziesii, Catherine Creek Park, Lake Stevens, Snohomish County, Washington sword fern understory Polystichum munitum, Catherine Creek Park, Lake Stevens, Snohomish County, Washington
Big Douglas-fir trunk    © Rod Crawford Fern understory was fairly productive       © Rod Crawford
red cedar foliage Thuja plicata, Catherine Creek Park, Lake Stevens, Snohomish County, Washington Catherine Creek, Lake Stevens, Snohomish County, Washington
Cedar folilage added some species © Rod Crawford Shores of Catherine Creek look deceptively natural  © Rod Crawford
Catherine Creek, Lake Stevens, Snohomish County, Washington Catherine Creek, Lake Stevens, Snohomish County, Washington
But blackberries & houses...     © Rod Crawford ...are just out of sight in the streamside view      © Rod Crawford
ivy Hedera helix in understory, Centennial Woods Park, Lake Stevens, Snohomish County, Washington ivy Hedera helix on tree trunks, Centennial Woods Park, Lake Stevens, Snohomish County, Washington
Ivy invades the understory     © Rod Crawford ...and tree trunks in Centennial Woods Park      © Rod Crawford
juvenile spider Cybaeus sp., Cybaeidae from leaf litter, Centennial Woods Park, Lake Stevens, Snohomish County, Washington juvenile spider Callobius pictus, Amaurobiidae, from moss, Centennial Woods Park, Lake Stevens, Snohomish County, Washington
Juvenile Cybaeus sp.   © Rod Crawford Juvenile Callobius pictus        © Rod Crawford
female spider Ero canionis, Mimetidae, from ferns, Catherine Creek Park, Lake Stevens, Snohomish County, Washington male spider Robertus vigerens litter, Centennial Woods Park, Lake Stevens, Snohomish County, Washington
Ero canionis, "pirate spider" female  © Rod Crawford Robertus vigerens male, from litter         © Rod Crawford
female spider Lepthyphantes (Tenuiphantes) zelatus, Linyphiidae, from leaf litter, Centennial Woods Park, Lake Stevens, Snohomish County, Washington leaf litter from maple Acer, Centennial Woods Park, Lake Stevens, Snohomish County, Washington
Lepthyphantes (Tenuiphantes) zelatus © Rod Crawford Maple litter habitat in Centennial Woods       © Rod Crawford

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