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Rson · **Willis Point Spider web -** 08-30-2007, 11:55 AM

I just saw this on the web (no pun intended)

anyone live out there going to get some shots? I hear it is a once and a lifetime event. I would be curious to see it.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070830/...cJ5ULAeznEHX0V

lscottpht · 08-30-2007, 12:18 PM

Wow, that sounds cool, although I was hoping to see a pic of it.

zeroendless · 08-30-2007, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by lscottpht

Wow, that sounds cool, although I was hoping to see a pic of it.

http://texasento.net/Social_Spider.htm

lscottpht · 08-30-2007, 12:39 PM

Thanks for the photo, that's cool!

snidow · 08-30-2007, 12:54 PM

That's so cool and so scary! I might have to drive out that way to take a look at it.

zeroendless · 08-30-2007, 01:08 PM

Me too, I read about the social spider from local birder forum couple days ago, there's also report of Wood Storks at lake Tawakoni below the dam area.

Then, there's also a new rookery at Heard Museum open to public due to lacks of funding. ($8 per entry) i like to check it out, wonder how close we can get it... :) :) So i heard there's few chimchanga nests (Ice's bird book :) ) and plenty of late season chicks around.

It ll be a long weekend anyway, good for local trips.

snidow · 08-30-2007, 01:17 PM

I saw one rookery at Heard, I think I wasn't supposed to be back there but anyway it went from being kind of small to much larger in one month but I have not seen it in a month. There was a body of water between you and the rookery so I could not get as close as I wanted to. I am not sure if its the same one but it might be and you might be able to get closer now if it has expanded more. The one I saw was after you go through the swamp type area on the wood platform, take a right and just go straight from there and they were just passed the tree line. (Not to hijack the thread)