Greetings from way up North. . Sorry for my long absence but gosh been busy! That said, I still get out there and shoot a few photos, like this week when I discovered a local and where Kingfishers are active as of late! (I never get Kingfisher shots.. Well till this week)
Here's a few to get started
Hope you folks have had an enjoyable summer ... Cheers and all the best
A new spider has arrived. A Yellow Garden Spider set up shop in the garden tonight. Hopefully it sticks around for a bit. Also, another kill for the Orbweaver today.
The yellow/black spider is known to us in the Southeast USA as a "Writing Spider". I'm not sure of their real name. They seem to show up around here at about this time every year. Their webs are very strong, and if you manage to plow through one, the thread of the web is so strong that it causes a bit of skin pain just before it breaks. The children's story "Charlotte's Web" was written about them. Their area of habitation seems to be mostly located around Charlotte, NC (I live a bit Northeast of Charlotte). These spiders always build their web with the white center area, weaved as if writing on the web, and they always make the center area wider, likely so as to hide themselves, at least from one side of the web. This center area is where they wait for the next meal to arrive. I've seen hummingbirds caught in these webs, and I'll usually work with a stick to free them from the web before the spider can get to them. If you make a hole in the web, the spider will quickly repair the hole too, and if you tamper with the web, the spider will begin swinging the web forward and back in a likely attempt to catch whatever they sence is touching the web. These spiders are huge. The whole spider including their legs when fully grown will usually be about the size of a silver dollar. They don't seem to ever come inside the house, but usually like to build their webs between my house and the boxwood bushes along the front and sides of the house, so the North, East, and West sides. I think the South (Sunny) side of the house gets a bit too hot for them. Sorry, I'm no spider expert, but this is what I know about this particular neighboring spider.
I think this is the sharpest image I've gotten yet of the Orbweaver, and a bonus shot of the Yellow Garden Spider (which has seemingly not moved a millimeter since I spotted it yesterday).
chuck4242 wrote:
I think this is the sharpest image I've gotten yet of the Orbweaver, and a bonus shot of the Yellow Garden Spider (which has seemingly not moved a millimeter since I spotted it yesterday).
. Sorry for my long absence but gosh been busy! That said, I still get out there and shoot a few photos, like this week when I discovered a local and where Kingfishers are active as of late! (I never get Kingfisher shots.. Well till this week)
