Album of Bacon Creek Field Trip

Selected photos by Rod Crawford and Laurel Ramseyer from our 16 October 2017 spider collecting trip to Bacon Creek (NE of Marblemount), Skagit County, Washington (with a stop on the Skagit River east of Rockport). The weather cooperated, and our first site quickly completed the Sauk Mountain sample, but on Bacon Creek itself the foliage was rather moist and most habitats only moderately productive at most; still, we got at least 30 species there including an unidentified linyphiid and the very rare Drapetisca alteranda. Plus, the Rockport sample added another new introduced species, pirate spider Ero tuberculata. It's hard to go wrong in October!
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2015 aerial photo of Skagit River 3.5 miles E of Rockport, Washington fall colors in Concrete, Washington on 15 October 2017
Our Skagit River site was in middle of image along the highway
(Skagit County, 2015)		 Fall colors in the town of Concrete              © Rod Crawford
parking place along Highway 20, Skagit River 3.5 miles E of Rockport, Washington field and forest above Highway 20, Skagit River 3.5 miles E of Rockport, Washington
Our parking place along the highway       © Rod Crawford Field and forest above the highway           © Rod Crawford
Ditch along North Cascades Highway, Skagit River 3.5 miles E of Rockport, Washington Skagit River, Skagit River 3.5 miles E of Rockport, Washington
We swept a few species in the ditch   © Laurel Ramseyer The broad Skagit River, at rather low water        © Rod Crawford
Bassaniana utahensis female crab spider, Skagit River 3.5 miles E of Rockport, Washington Laurel Ramseyer at retaining wall on Highway 20, Skagit River 3.5 miles E of Rockport, Washington
Laurel found this female Bassaniana       © Rod Crawford Laurel behind the retaining wall           © Rod Crawford
intersection of Bacon Creek and Bacon Point roads, NE of Marblemount, Skagit County, Washington, 2013 aerial photo Ron and Fred Austin, intersection of Bacon Creek and Bacon Point roads, NE of Marblemount, Skagit County, Washington
Intersection of Bacon Creek & Bacon Point roads (Skagit County 2013) Ron Austin photographing Rod at our main site             © Rod Crawford
fall webworm nests, intersection of Bacon Creek and Bacon Point roads, NE of Marblemount, Skagit County, Washington roadside verge foliage, intersection of Bacon Creek and Bacon Point roads, NE of Marblemount, Skagit County, Washington
Fall webworm nests           © Rod Crawford Roadside verge produced 5 species                    © Rod Crawford
fall color at intersection of Bacon Creek and Bacon Point roads, NE of Marblemount, Skagit County, Washington
We were surrounded by…        © Rod Crawford …dazzling fall color              © Rod Crawford
Theridion differens from Douglas-fir foliage, intersection of Bacon Creek and Bacon Point roads, NE of Marblemount, Skagit County, Washington fern understory, intersection of Bacon Creek and Bacon Point roads, NE of Marblemount, Skagit County, Washington
Theridion differens from fir foliage       © Rod Crawford Sword fern understory                 © Rod Crawford
Douglas-fir foliage, intersection of Bacon Creek and Bacon Point roads, NE of Marblemount, Skagit County, Washington moss on maple trunk, intersection of Bacon Creek and Bacon Point roads, NE of Marblemount, Skagit County, Washington
Douglas-fir foliage           © Rod Crawford Moss on riparian maple trunk              © Rod Crawford
edge of bluff over creek, intersection of Bacon Creek and Bacon Point roads, NE of Marblemount, Skagit County, Washington Bacon Creek bed and vegetated bluff, intersection of Bacon Creek and Bacon Point roads, NE of Marblemount, Skagit County, Washington
Foliage at brink of creek bluff       © Laurel Ramseyer Creek bed and hanging foliage; note low water!           © Laurel Ramseyer
amaurobiid spider Cybaeopsis macarius with egg sac under stone, intersection of Bacon Creek and Bacon Point roads, NE of Marblemount, Skagit County, Washington stones at edge of creek bed, intersection of Bacon Creek and Bacon Point roads, NE of Marblemount, Skagit County, Washington
Cybaeopsis macarius with egg sac      © Laurel Ramseyer Relatively productive stones at edge of creek bed          © Laurel Ramseyer
juvenile Cybaeus spider under stone, intersection of Bacon Creek and Bacon Point roads, NE of Marblemount, Skagit County, Washington mayfly on stream bank sand, intersection of Bacon Creek and Bacon Point roads, NE of Marblemount, Skagit County, Washington
Juvenile Cybaeus species            © Laurel Ramseyer Late-season mayfly on sand                 © Laurel Ramseyer
juvenile mystery spider, intersection of Bacon Creek and Bacon Point roads, NE of Marblemount, Skagit County, Washington female linyphiid spider Drapetisca alteranda from metal gate, intersection of Bacon Creek and Bacon Point roads, NE of Marblemount, Skagit County, Washington
Juvenile mystery spider           © Rod Crawford Laurel's prize catch, Drapetisca alteranda                   © Rod Crawford
leaf litter, intersection of Bacon Creek and Bacon Point roads, NE of Marblemount, Skagit County, Washington Bacon Creek about a mile from Hwy 20, NE of Marblemount, Skagit County, Washington
Leaf litter             © Laurel Ramseyer Late in the day, Bacon Creek now full of water!                 © Rod Crawford
Bacon Creek about a mile from Hwy 20, NE of Marblemount, Skagit County, Washington Cascade Burgers restaurant, Concrete, Washington
Where'd all that water come from?        © Rod Crawford Cascade Burgers was our homeward pit stop             © Rod Crawford
sunset west of Concrete, Skagit County, Washington, 15 October 2017 sunset west of Concrete, Skagit County, Washington, 15 October 2017
Sunset west of Concrete            © Rod Crawford Same sunset a little later             © Rod Crawford

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