Album of Harvey Creek Field Trip

Selected photos (by Rod Crawford and Laurel Ramseyer) from our 23 March 2011 spider collecting trip to sites near Harvey Creek on the trail system of Pilchuck Tree Farm, Snohomish County, Washington. We selected the area because Ponderosa pine (rare in western Washington) was reported there. Well, it proved to be the Trail of the Phantom Pine, but we had a good time, got some of the winter kinks out of our legs, and collected 38 spider species. The tree farm has maintained some nice natural habitats among the clearcuts and trees-in-a-row, and is a good place for hikes, bikes and horses.
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annotated 2010 aerial photo, part of Pilchick Tree Farm, Snohomish County, Washington skunk cabbage Lysichiton marsh at edge of Pilchick Tree Farm, Snohomish County, Washington
Our circuitous trail route        (Snohomish County, 2010) New-blooming skunk cabbage in roadside marsh      © Rod Crawford
harvestman Sclerobunus nondimorphicus under wood, Pilchick Tree Farm, Snohomish County, Washington bridge out across Harvey Creek, Pilchick Tree Farm, Snohomish County, Washington
Day's first specimen, Sclerobunus nondimorphicus   © Laurel Ramseyer Oops, the main bridge is still out!               © Rod Crawford
winter grass in small meadow, Pilchick Tree Farm, Snohomish County, Washington typical horse trail, Pilchick Tree Farm, Snohomish County, Washington
Little grassland along the trail       © Rod Crawford Typical sandy horse trail             © Rod Crawford
anthill Formica obscuripes western thatchilng ant, Pilchick Tree Farm, Snohomish County, Washington mudhole in trail, Pilchick Tree Farm, Snohomish County, Washington
Thatching ant nest coming to life             © Rod Crawford In spots, the trail becomes a mudhole                 © Rod Crawford
sheet web of Neriene digna, Pilchick Tree Farm, Snohomish County, Washington planted clearcut with some grass, Pilchick Tree Farm, Snohomish County, Washington
Neriene digna web           © Laurel Ramseyer Planted clearcut has some grassy habitat           © Rod Crawford
jumping spider Phanias albeolus, Pilchick Tree Farm, Snohomish County, Washington trailside salal Gaultheria shallon, Pilchick Tree Farm, Snohomish County, Washington
Phanias albeolus was on trees & shrubs  © Laurel Ramseyer Salal was abundant at our first site             © Laurel Ramseyer
Polypodium glycyrrhiza, licorice-fern on tree, Pilchuck Tree Farm, Snohomish County, Washington deciduous tree grove, Pilchuck Tree Farm, Snohomish County, Washington
Licorice-fern on trees, as in rain forest     © Rod Crawford Nice, spider-rich deciduous grove made my day           © Rod Crawford
moss on alder trunk, Pilchuck Tree Farm, Snohomish County, Washington understory of leafless deciduous grove, Pilchuck Tree Farm, Snohomish County, Washington
Rich moss on alder trunk    © Rod Crawford The grove's understory still in full sunlight              © Laurel Ramseyer
leaf litter in sifter, Pilchuck Tree Farm, Snohomish County, Washington Rod Crawford sifting leaf litter, Pilchuck Tree Farm, Snohomish County, Washington
Leaf litter from 3 tree species         © Rod Crawford Sifting out the day's best spider catch                 © Laurel Ramseyer
linyphiid spider Halorates ksenius with egg sac under wood, Pilchuck Tree Farm, Snohomish County, Washington Cicurina pusilla from leaf litter, Pilchuck Tree Farm, Snohomish County, Washington
Halorates ksenius with egg sac        © Laurel Ramseyer Carapace of Cicurina pusilla from litter         © Rod Crawford
orbweaver Metellina curtisi, Pilchuck Tree Farm, Snohomish County, Washington frog pond in clearcut, Pilchuck Tree Farm, Snohomish County, Washington
Metellina curtisi was main orbweaver    © Laurel Ramseyer Pond in mid-clearcut, well-stocked with chorus frogs        © Laurel Ramseyer
Rod Crawford beating riparian foliage on Harvey Creek, Pilchuck Tree Farm, Snohomish County, Washington Harvey Creek from lower bridge, Pilchuck Tree Farm, Snohomish County, Washington
Rod beating streamside foliage      © Laurel Ramseyer Harvey Creek (no giant rabbits in evidence)          © Rod Crawford
tiger fly Coenosia sp., Pilchuck Tree Farm, Snohomish County, Washington brown tissue moth Triphosa haesitata on bridge, Pilchuck Tree Farm, Snohomish County, Washington
Muscid fly, possibly Coenosia sp.     © Laurel Ramseyer Triphosa haesitata on the footbridge         © Laurel Ramseyer
evening shade in riparian woods, Pilchuck Tree Farm, Snohomish County, Washington lower footbridge on Harvey Creek, Pilchuck Tree Farm, Snohomish County, Washington
Evening shades coming on        © Rod Crawford Laurel about to find a good species on interpretive sign         © Rod Crawford
new grass in marsh at edge of Pilchuck Tree Farm, Snohomish County, Washington marsh at edge of Pilchuck Tree Farm, Snohomish County, Washington
New grass by a tributary creek          © Rod Crawford Roadside marsh looked good, didn't produce much           © Rod Crawford

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