100 Days of Nature - Day 13

I worked late again tonight, so had to contend with little light, over cast skies AND wind. I was poking around in my neighbours leylandii, looking for critters which were sheltered from the wind, and was so focused on the abundance of webs that I almost walked into this girl. I'm not scared of spiders, but I think having her crawl over my face would give even me the heebie-jeebies...

100 Days of Nature: Day 7

I was just about to give up today. I could find nothing interesting in the garden apart from grass and dandelion leaves (which, fyi, are not very interesting). Just as I was heading back inside though, a little movement on the wall caught my eye & I saw this jumping spider. I am really pleased with how sharp the eyes came out - I didn't have time to set the tripod up for fear of losing my little arachnid friend, so I hand-held and manually focused. Go me!