Album of Lower Bacon Creek Field Trip

Selected photos by Rod Crawford and Jerry Austin from our 24 May 2023 spider collecting trip returning to Bacon Creek in the north Cascades, Skagit County, Washington. We didn't go all the way to the bitter end of the road this time, but just inside the gridspace where we got only 18 species on March 29; now we have 22 from there! A far more productive area at the lower end of the creek got us a quite nice 32 species this same day, in varied habitats.
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2020 aerial photo of Oakes Creek-Bacon Creek junction area, Skagit County, Washington Green roadside, Oakes Creek above Bacon Creek confluence, Skagit County, Washington
Our site just N of Oakes Creek    (Skagit County, 2020) Everything lush and green at our site on Bacon Creek Road      © Rod Crawford
Jerry Austin sorting a beat sample, Oakes Creek above Bacon Creek confluence, Skagit County, Washington moss-coated stump, Oakes Creek above Bacon Creek confluence, Skagit County, Washington
Jerry sorting a beat sample in black net     © Rod Crawford Stump buried in moss                   © Rod Crawford
moss on western hemlock, Oakes Creek above Bacon Creek confluence, Skagit County, Washington moss on western hemlock, Oakes Creek above Bacon Creek confluence, Skagit County, Washington
Moss drapes western hemlock branch       © Rod Crawford Plenty more moss on other hemlocks                   © Rod Crawford
sifting moss on car, Oakes Creek above Bacon Creek confluence, Skagit County, Washington sword fern understory, Oakes Creek above Bacon Creek confluence, Skagit County, Washington
Sifting moss on car hood              © Rod Crawford Sword fern understory                 © Rod Crawford
spider sites on lower Bacon Creek, Skagit County, Washington ferns in understory, lower Bacon Creek Road, Skagit County, Washington
Sites near lower Bacon Creek & its delta (Skagit Co. 2020) Floodplain maple forest with ferns & thimbleberry             © Rod Crawford
roadside western hemlock foliage, lower Bacon Creek Road, Skagit County, Washington roadside Douglas-fir foliage, lower Bacon Creek Road, Skagit County, Washington
Roadside western hemlock foliage        © Rod Crawford Roadside Douglas-fir foliage                    © Rod Crawford
Xysticus crab spider, lower Bacon Creek Road, Skagit County, Washington mossy bigleaf maple trunk, lower Bacon Creek Road, Skagit County, Washington
Xysticus crab spider with atypical carapace pattern    © Rod Crawford Thick moss coats bigleaf maple trunk                 © Rod Crawford
bigleaf maple leaf litter, lower Bacon Creek Road, Skagit County, Washington thimbleberry Rubus parviflorus in bloom, lower Bacon Creek Road, Skagit County, Washington
Maple litter looked very rich, but…       © Rod Crawford Thimbleberry in bloom                  © Rod Crawford
Rod Crawford sets out into powerline clearing, Bacon Creek delta, Skagit County, Washington powerline clearing, Bacon Creek delta, Skagit County, Washington
Rod ready to make the powerline yield up its spiders  © Jerry Austin But the powerline clearing had other ideas!                  © Rod Crawford
Female Ceraticelus fissiceps spider, Bacon Creek delta, Skagit County, Washington shrub thicket in powerline, Bacon Creek delta, Skagit County, Washington
Ceraticelus fissiceps from powerline firs   © Rod Crawford Shrub thicket in powerline clearing                © Rod Crawford
Douglas-fir in powerline, Bacon Creek delta, Skagit County, Washington Douglas-fir in powerline, Bacon Creek delta, Skagit County, Washington
Douglas-fir foliage in the sun…           © Rod Crawford …the best spider habitat of the day                      © Rod Crawford
willow shrub on sand bar, sand bar, Bacon Creek delta area, Skagit County, Washington
Willow shrubs on sand bar had spiders       © Jerry Austin Extensive, semi-vegetated sand bar                   © Rod Crawford
cobbles on gravel bar, Bacon Creek delta area, Skagit County, Washington Bacon Creek in delta area, Skagit County, Washington
Cobbles on gravel bar            © Rod Crawford Gravel bar and Bacon Creek                © Rod Crawford
Arctosa perita from sand, Bacon Creek delta area, Skagit County, Washington Whitehorse Mountain near Darrington, Washington on 24 May 2023
Jerry's Arctosa perita             © Rod Crawford Whitehorse Mountain with far less snow than in March         © Rod Crawford
butterfly Papilio eurymedon, Bacon Creek delta area, Skagit County, Washington sunset from N edge of Darrington, Washington on 24 May 2023
Papilio eurymedon on thistle            © Jerry Austin Sunset just outside Darrington                        © Rod Crawford

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