Selected photos by Rod Crawford from my 24 May 2015 spider collecting trip with Della Scott to Van Wyck Park (not a park now but the proposed site of one) on King "Mountain", and the lower Nooksack River, both in Whatcom County, Washington. In a not-very-long day we boosted two adjacent grid-areas from 12 and 1 species respectively to 24 and 29. At the river site, nearly all species were from just two habitats, grass-sweeping and spruce-beating. Contrary to prediction, the day was sunny and everything turned out altogether pleasant.

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Former clearcut, now a meadow, some day a park      (circa 2011)	We parked at the end of Van Wyck Road           © Rod Crawford
Maple litter was worth sifting         © Rod Crawford	Tent caterpillars not in short supply              © Rod Crawford
Della has lunch           © Rod Crawford	Road continues into meadowland           © Rod Crawford
Ground-level wolf spider habitat        © Rod Crawford	Meadow habitat continues uphill             © Rod Crawford
Unidentified meadow flower         © Rod Crawford	More trees on far north side of meadow             © Rod Crawford
Red cedar foliage           © Rod Crawford	Forest edge              © Rod Crawford
Varied deciduous forest          © Rod Crawford	Still more deciduous forest           © Rod Crawford
Plathemis lydia on a log, far from water      © Rod Crawford	View of Lummi Island from the park hill           © Rod Crawford

Our second site, even more productive, was on the lowermost part of the Nooksack River at the Slater Road bridge.

Bridge and riparian habitats               (circa 2008)	Path from parking lot to dike trail              © Rod Crawford
First glimpse of the bridge         © Rod Crawford	Sun dazzle on the river             © Rod Crawford
The enemy (blackberry) at work          © Rod Crawford	If not prevented, it will make the whole site look like this        © Rod Crawford
Breast-high grass            © Rod Crawford	Anchor? Dredge? Sign not visible from river             © Rod Crawford
Philodromus cespitum              © Rod Crawford	All those yellow flowers and not one Misumena             © Rod Crawford
Feral Hydrangea bush        © Rod Crawford	Nooksack River from dike trail             © Rod Crawford
Structural habitats on bridge        © Rod Crawford	Heading down the dike-top trail                © Rod Crawford
Spruce foliage yielded 19 spider species!     © Rod Crawford	The Slater Road Bridge             © Rod Crawford

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