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We live together with both of them... (not any more, actually, the spider (together with its food baggie) was let go in the yard)
Strobist: ambient plus STU camera right-ish (it was pretty hard to both see the subject and give the light a changce to "see" it too)
If you have Purple Martins or any other type of nesting birds a predator guard in highly advised. Two years ago I had 3 nesting pairs of Purple Martins, a 3 foot long Rat Snake climbed the pole and took up residence in one of the gourds. The adults abandoned the colony and the uneaten babies died. I purchased this guard, however if you are a bit handy you can purchase some 6 or 8 inch rigid duct, like used in heating and air systems, cut a piece of wood I.E. 2X4 to the appropriate length, equal to the diameter of the duct, use a hole saw slightly smaller than the diameter of your post to cut a hole in the wood then drill two holes through board so you can you two long screws to through bolt it or you could simply use long wood srews to hold the tw halves tightly to the post after the wood is cut lengthwise, a few screws and some 1/4 inch mesh over the top and you have a predator guard for a few dollars.
Please protect your nesting birds. I even place duct around the feeder post to keep the cats out of the feeder.
If this is a confussing at it seems let me know and I will take some photos of how to make the pieces.
Hope this is of some help,
Jim
There ARE predators. There's this Colorado bear-dog, and there are foxes and coyotes and hawks and owls and all sorts of critters who'd love to eat a little kitty unused to being outside. He's safe in here, though.
Used as a management tool to help western snowy plovers hatch their nests when predators are too crafty at egg-finding. The risk is that the predators can learn that an adult is inside, and that adult must come out some time.
I decided to lay a white towel down under the uv light to see if any ground-movers wanted to join the party.
apparently it was a pretty popular place, and the big bad wolf knew it too.