{"id":2042,"date":"2011-09-04T23:09:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T22:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2042"},"modified":"2013-11-08T18:26:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T18:26:13","slug":"nursery-web-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/nursery-web-spider\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursery Web Spider"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Continuing yesterday&#39;s spidery them, these are a few shots I took in the early hours of Sunday morning. I&#39;d been scouting around for something (anything?) interesting and having failed only spotted this as I was about to come back inside. It&#39;s a nursery web spider (at least that&#39;s my best attempt at an identification) with her egg sac. She will find a secure place to &#39;plant&#39; the sac and then protect it with a small tent of webbing. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/nwspider_sac_0409118170.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/nwspider_sac_0409118180.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/nwspider_sac_0409118190.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And while on spiders, I posted this <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/365\/albums\/showpic.dml?album=5772512&amp;picture=123315342\" target=\"_blank\">tangle of legs<\/a> in my 365 album a few days ago, without really understanding what it was. I now think that it&#39;s a spider shedding its exoskeleton. <\/p>\n<p>Now for some brighter pictures from today&#8230; I&#39;ll start with a black-headed gull.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/black_headed_gull_0409118209.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And a couple of shots of a very friendly mallard.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/duck_0409118336.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/duck_0409118320.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><a title=\"site stats\" href=\"http:\/\/statcounter.com\/free-web-stats\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/c.statcounter.com\/7187219\/0\/2c644058\/1\/\" alt=\"site stats\" style=\"border:none;\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Camera note: spider shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS USM lens. The birds were photographed with the EF 400mm f\/5.6L USM 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":[1009],"tags":[378,1160,430,780],"class_list":["post-2042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiders-2","tag-black-headed-gull","tag-duck","tag-egg-sac","tag-nursery-web-spider","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}