Dec. 8, 2013 - West Coast Trip-Part 5-Spider Webs

My early morning birding trips along the Oregon coast were often accompanied by heavy dew conditions. Spider webs, usually invisible, were coated with the dew and became objects of beauty when the light from the sun was in just the right position.

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This web looks kind of bare in the center. I wonder if the spider wasn’t quite finished building it. The seed pods do add a nice touch, however.

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Perhaps this is an older web that has sustained some damage. It looks like there are some holes in it.

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Dew often formed into large drops of water making the webs look like strings of pearls.

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The silk threads holding this web to the nearby plants don’t seem to be covered with water. That makes the web appear to be floating in the air.

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I was amazed at the extensive network of webs on this evergreen shrub. Without the dew I’ll bet the webs would not even be seen.

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Here’s a close-up of the shrub in the previous photo. There must have been a large number of spiders working on it.

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