{"id":7618,"date":"2012-04-11T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=7618"},"modified":"2012-04-11T11:42:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T15:42:29","slug":"and-another-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2012\/04\/and-another-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"And another thing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First off, even if you don&#8217;t like spiders, you really need to check out this video, an extremely well done collection of jumping spider behaviors. This comes courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/thedragonflywoman.com\/2012\/04\/06\/fabulous-salties\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Dragonfly Woman<\/em><\/a>. Even though I&#8217;m embedding it here, I encourage you to <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/MVDolRfgseY\" target=\"_blank\">go to the source<\/a> for all of the details about it. While watching the clips of male-male interaction, I was reminded irresistibly of elementary school fights &#8211; they had much the same ratio of posturing to action&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MVDolRfgseY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I reached that website through another, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arizona-writer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Arizona Writer<\/em><\/a>, who also provided another link. When I did the <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/category\/amateur-naturalist\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amateur Naturalist<\/a> series, I pointed out that, with insects (that&#8217;s part one, and to be more accurate\/pedantic\/anal, it should have been <em>arthropoda<\/em>,) it was actually possible to discover either a new species or a new behavior. The details in the above video tell that some of the behavior seen within had not before been seen<strong>;<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canberratimes.com.au\/environment\/how-amateurs-discovered-namadgis-tiny-dancer-20120402-1w95e.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>this<\/em> post tells how an amateur naturalist discovered a previously unknown species of jumping spider<\/a>. The phylum of arthropods is huge, hundreds of thousands of different species, and their habitats are sometimes very limited, so yes, keep your eyes open. <a href=\"http:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/15740\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Bugguide.net<\/em><\/a> can help a lot to identify what you have found, but some of the participants have been far snottier than necessary, so be warned.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/RSHNest.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"RSHNest\" width=\"400\" height=\"424\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7621\" \/>Meanwhile, I&#8217;ve been keeping an eye on the local Red-shouldered Hawks, but it&#8217;s gotten more difficult. The female has built the nest up a little more so she&#8217;s often obscured by twigs around the edge, and a few tiny branches right near the nest produced far too much foliage &#8211; most of my lines of sight are blocked, and the nest remains almost perpetually in shade. Yesterday evening, as the sun was low and the wind was blowing fiercely, I fired off a few dozen frames attempting to catch her when the leaves moved aside and the light broke through, but the light never reached her position &#8211; they knew what they were doing in choosing that location. The photo at left, while still a crop from a larger frame (the best I can achieve right now with the 170-500mm lens,) shows the conditions I&#8217;m attempting to thwart, while the image below is a full-resolution portion of the same frame<strong>;<\/strong> you can see the female&#8217;s head turned to the right, beak slightly open. It&#8217;s obvious I won&#8217;t see any nice views of her feeding the young when they&#8217;ve hatched unless I manage to get up a nearby tree, but if I have my timing right I might catch the early fledging behavior and first flights. I have no climbing gear (and not even a ladder right now) so the idea of just getting up a tree for a better vantage is easier said than done, and I might simply find that my views from there are no better than on the ground (having to deal with the foliage of the tree I&#8217;d be within, as well.) We&#8217;ll see what happens.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/RSHNestDetail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"RSHNestDetail\" width=\"730\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/RSHNestDetail.jpg 730w, https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/RSHNestDetail-400x246.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First off, even if you don&#8217;t like spiders, you really need to check out this video, an extremely well done collection of jumping spider behaviors. This comes courtesy of The Dragonfly Woman. Even though I&#8217;m embedding it here, I encourage you to go to the source for all of the details about it. While watching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[855,10,6,4,3,12],"tags":[1193,494,1192,493,1191],"class_list":["post-7618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur-naturalist","category-continued","category-humor","category-nature","category-photo","category-random","tag-behavior","tag-buteo-lineatus","tag-jumping-spiders","tag-red-shouldered-hawk","tag-salticidae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}