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| Money spider money shot. 'Money spider' is a generic term for around 250 species in Britain this one This one is probably made by Lepthyphantes tenuis. |
| Since starting this blog, my patchwork perambulations have been even more enjoyable. Take this morning, for example. The birding was disappointing - with none of the hoped for passage migrants. However, now because I'm looking at everything on the patch - not just the birds, there's always something wonderful to see. I'm viewing the place more as a whole - a community of wildlife. This morning was about spiders webs. The effect of the morning light on water droplets lined along the strands of silk was stunning. Phew, I managed to avoid the overused 'strands of pearls' cliché. Equally fascinating is the way that - under certain conditions - things are revealed that would otherwise go unnoticed. The abundance of 'money spider' webs being a case in point. In a patch of the patch, about a meter square, I counted seventy three of these silken hammocks. Never one to pass up an opportunity to extrapolate* - I calculate that the patch total of such webs is a Big Lot (my workings for this calculation are available on request). |
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| Some more from a few days ago |
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* 'Appetite for Extrapolation' by Guns and Roses is seldom off my phonogram
**Pearly Dewdrops Drops is a track a The Coctau Twins