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Testing a raft fresh from 'Deals' surplus store
Summerfolk Music & Craft Festival. Held on the 3rd weekend in August at Kelso beach Park in Owen Sound.
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A juvenile Raft Spider Dolomedes fimbriatus on a Birch leaf. At this time of the year you can often find these juvenile Raft Spiders all over the vegetation, often a long distance from any pool as they really seem to disperse. In fact from now on into late Summer-Autumn they can appear to be the most numerous spider on the Moss, there are so many of them.
They are a bit ahead this year as they appeared earlier than usual, and so are a bit more advanced.
Everything was a compromise with this shot as it was a bit too overcast, and I had to handhold using a stick in the way popularised by Brian Valentine to steady the camera and lens.
Read about them on my blog entry here.
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A young Raft Spider Dolomedes fimbriatus. Definitely one of this years progeny, and whilst not big relative to how large they can grow, not a tiddler.
Just a quick note on how I shot this. The spider was too far out from the bank. So I had to hold the camera in front of me at arms length using the strap to brace against. Then in live view, using the excellent touch screen and dual pixel autofocus of the 80D, place the focus point on the eye.
Read about them on my blog entry here.
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Female raft spider. Arne, Dorset, UK.
Possibly the rear legs are used here to break the surface tension in preparation for a quick underwater escape.
With short, water repelling hairs covering the body and legs, Raft Spiders are able to walk-on-water. They detect their insect prey by detecting ripples in the water. This one was found in a muddy ditch in the New Forest.
I think this is called the snake river but don't quote me. It runs along the Teton mountain chain in Teton National Park and we took a 'bunny slope' ride down river with a guide. All the fun I wanted at my age. To get this shot I hung the camera over the edge of the raft and pointed in the general downstream direction. The rest was luck.
I still have he camera by the way. I did not drop it.
A beautifully coloured young male raftie, spotted close to the entrance at the western end of Shapwick Heath.
You don't often see photos of puffins on the water, and the seas off the coast of Pembrokeshire are a wonderful colour.
I wish I'd taken more, really.
Testing a raft fresh from 'Deals' surplus store
Summerfolk Music & Craft Festival. Held on the 3rd weekend in August at Kelso beach Park in Owen Sound.
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Apologies to all fellow arachnophobes for this - I'm not a big spider fan, so I had to pluck up courage for this shot.
Raft Spiders (also sometimes known as "Swamp Spiders") are impressive critters - they use the water's surface in the way that other spiders use webs. Ripples made by insects on the water's surface are detected through the raft spider's front legs, alerting them to their prey.
The short, velvety, water-repelling hairs covering the body and legs then allow these large spiders to do the seemingly impossible - walk across the water to stun and catch their victims.
Testing a raft fresh from 'Deals' surplus store
Summerfolk Music & Craft Festival. Held on the 3rd weekend in August at Kelso beach Park in Owen Sound.
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On the way to a quiet vacation in the North Carolina Smoky Mountains, had to stop and enjoy the colours of the rafting line.
Testing a raft fresh from 'Deals' surplus store
Summerfolk Music & Craft Festival. Held on the 3rd weekend in August at Kelso beach Park in Owen Sound.
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At Shapwick Heath. It's common to find youngsters like this, two or three feet above the ground on vegetation which is not too far away from water.
As a half term treat I took the little fellas out white water rafting today and they loved every minute of it!