Selected photos by Hannah Dykstra from an 18 May 2014 spider collecting trip to the public fishing access point of Lake Fazon, Whatcom County, Washington. The greater number of photos taken by Rod Crawford are not here because they were on a camera I lost the next day! Collecting from swamp, riparian shrubs, a large field, and leaf litter at the lake, plus roadside habitats just outside the driveway to the lake, got us 28 species in part of a day. The second part, we devoted to adding records from Cordata Park at the north edge of Bellingham, where Hannah took no photos. A nice day until a fender-bender rudely interrupted our bliss!

USGS topo map of the lake; no aerial photos available!	Parking lot & shrubs; lake in the distance        © Hannah Dykstra
Very cloudy, but few raindrops       © Hannah Dykstra	Leaf litter ready to sift          © Hannah Dykstra
Polistes dominulus nest        © Hannah Dykstra	Julid millipede sifted from litter          © Hannah Dykstra
Wild rose           © Hannah Dykstra	Very large grassy field had few spiders         © Hannah Dykstra
Daisy with syrphid fly            © Hannah Dykstra	Only Hannah saw the garter snake         © Hannah Dykstra
Rod's beating net            © Hannah Dykstra	A tent caterpillar outbreak was just under way            © Hannah Dykstra
"Oooh! Horsies!"           © Hannah Dykstra	Water-edge of the swamp habitat         © Hannah Dykstra

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