Album of English Boom Field Trip

Selected photos from the spider collecting field trip to English Boom, a salt marsh preserve on Camano Island, Island County, Washington on 18 April 2007 with Laurel Ramseyer and Rod Crawford. Photos by both, as credited. A surprisingly unpublicized spot with easy public access to sandy beach berm, salt marsh, and littoral forest habitats. The fauna (at least in spring) was very good and the combination of habitats gave us 48 spider species for a short day's collecting! See here and here for info on the site.
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Aerial view of English Boom, Camano Island, Washington Skagit Bay from beach of English Boom, Camano Island, Washington
English Boom area (Island County photo) On the shores of Skagit Bay             © Rod Crawford
Arctosa perita, Lycosidae, wolf spider, English Boom, Camano Island, Washington (first specimen from Washington) sand-gravel habitat on beach berm, English Boom, Camano Island, Washington
First Arctosa perita from Washington   © R.Crawford Sand and gravel habitat                  © Rod Crawford
Laurel Ramseyer collecting wolf spiders on beach berm, English Boom, Camano Island, Washington Habronattus ophrys female, jumping spider Salticidae, English Boom, Camano Island, Washington
Laurel chasing wolf spiders        © Rod Crawford Habitat-limited Habronattus ophrys female        © Rod Crawford
Polistes dominulus, paper wasp, Vespidae, nesting on drift log, English Boom, Camano Island, Washington drift log, English Boom, Camano Island, Washington
Polistes dominulus       © Laurel Ramseyer Log surface habitat                   © Rod Crawford
Pardosa metlakatla, Lycosidae, wolf spider, English Boom, Camano Island, Washington Pardosa metlakatla, Lycosidae, wolf spider, English Boom, Camano Island, Washington
Pardosa metlakatla         © Rod Crawford When the water is your web           © Laurel Ramseyer
Dictyna major, Dictynidae, juvenile and web, English Boom, Camano Island, Washington Beach berm and drift logs, English Boom, Camano Island, Washington
Dictyna major and web       © Laurel Ramseyer Looking along the beach berm         © Rod Crawford
Andrenid bee, English Boom, Camano Island, Washington drift logs and marsh, English Boom, Camano Island, Washington
This andrenid bee was common  © L. Ramseyer Berm, drift logs, salt marsh and littoral forest   © Rod Crawford
salt marsh habitat, English Boom, Camano Island, Washington Sitticus palustris, female, Salticidae, jumping spider, from salt marsh, English Boom, Camano Island, Washington
Salt marsh habitat        © Rod Crawford Sitticus palustris from marsh           © Rod Crawford
Cantharidae soldier beetles mating, English Boom, Camano Island, Washington Floating drift logs on pond, English Boom, Camano Island, Washington
Cantharid beetles        © Laurel Ramseyer Floating logs on pool                   © Rod Crawford
leaf litter of bigleaf maple Acer macrophyllum in littoral forest, English Boom, Camano Island, Washington littoral forest, English Boom, Camano Island, Washington
Bigleaf maple leaf litter     © Rod Crawford Littoral forest              © Rod Crawford
fern Polystichum munitum understory in littoral forest, English Boom, Camano Island, Washington pond at edge of salt marsh and littoral forest, English Boom, Camano Island, Washington
Fern understory       © Rod Crawford Pool at edge of forest       © Rod Crawford

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