As per my recent posts, I've been opening up my awareness more to nature all around me. Where I'm living at the moment, there is flora and fauna in abundance and my family and I are very lucky to be surrounded by nature and all its treasures right now. I do realise however, that many of you reading this may be in an urban environment with less obvious nature to see and admire. With that in mind, I've choosen this little spider to post about and photograph.
The first thing you'll notice in the first set of photos is her rather rotund posterior! I'm no spider expert, but i believe Sally may be pregnant? I'm going to keep a good eye on her in the coming days and see if mysuspicions are correct.
These photos were captured yesterday with my trusty Samsung smartphone. Here she is hauling in some of her captured little flies for her dinner, which is well earned. She is eating for a couple of hundred after all. That's no exaggeration either, as spiders typically lay between 2 and 1000 eggs.
I checked in on her this morning and she is chilling out catching a few rays of sunshine and why shouldn't she! 😁
Some shots are focused so you can see the spider and others are focused so you can see the view.
What will tomorrow bring? Rain most likely, as this is Ireland, but who knows. I certainly won't watch the weather though, I prefer to live in hope!
