Friday 17 July 2015

Friday at the Flicks - House Sparrows & Stretch Spiders

One particularly hot day many of the local House Sparrows spent a lazy time Sunbathing on my shed roof. Who says their numbers are in decline? Here they have been breeding well this year:




I have tried several time to video the Stretch Spiders which build their webs between the plants in my garden pond. They seem to re-build them every day, if not more than once a day. This is the best I have managed so far. The webs are large and they work so quickly it isn't easy to try getting in really close:



Have a great weekend observing the wildlife around you.

4 comments:

  1. Hundreds of house sparrows here as well.

    I really enjoyed the spider video. Very impressive. I've had two goes at videoing macro hoverflies on hogweed and with conspicuous lack of success. I can't keep them in focus at all.

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    1. Adrian: At least a web is two dimensional so once in focus it's just a question of trying to keep the spider in view. Flying beasties in three dimensional space would be much more difficult.

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  2. spiders go thru so much work! the sparrows are adorable.

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  3. Aaaaw, the sparrows are gorgeous! and what a little busy-body that spider is John! Here we have the Orb-web spiders that do exactly the same.

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Thank you for visiting. Hope you enjoyed the pictures. Any comment, or correction to any information or identification I get wrong, is most welcome. John

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