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<\/a><\/p>\nSeeing the moth got me looking further and next on the list of small creatures was a grasshopper.<\/p>\n The strangest creature of all though was the next one, which comes with a standard spider alert :bug::bug: It's a nursery web spider, but it took me ages to figure out what was actually going on. It appeared to be perched on a large (comparatively speaking) stone. In fact, she's carrying a cocoon she creates around her egg sac and carries about with her until she creates a nursery web for the young to hatch into.<\/p>\n For those keen on spiders, there are more shots of her in the Arachnids<\/a> album.<\/p>\n On other fronts, the young gulls were sleepy today. I couldn't see the 'lower deck' chick this morning. It's situated on a part of the roof which is 40% obscured from my vantage point. But it was there at lunchtime, sheltering from the sun. Other sightings today included a mistle thrush<\/a>, and a pair of kestrels out hunting, including one which seemed to have had some success<\/a>.<\/p>\n Camera note: the moth, grasshopper and spider were photographed with the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro lens. The gull chick was captured with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[991,251,1009],"tags":[1177,72,1162,1132],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insects-2","category-moth","category-spiders-2","tag-chick","tag-grasshopper","tag-moth","tag-spider","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n