walkabout: Walker Springs

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This week’s Ijams Walk•About will be led by roving guest naturalist and local nature blogger Rikki Hall.

The Walk•About is scheduled for Saturday, March 12 at 3 p.m.

Rikki will focus on “Unexpected Nature” or the nature that can be found even in the heart of the city and development along the Ten Mile Creek Greenway. The program is free for Ijams members, $5 for non-members. Call 577-4717 ext. 10 to register.

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- Water cress growing in Ten Mile Creek near Walker Springs.

mystery solved

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The answer to yesterday’s post came from Rikki Hall, as I knew it would.

“That’s definitely an orb weaver (family Araneidae), and I think it’s Eriophora ravilla. We’re at the northern edge of their range, so you don’t see them as often as other orb weavers.”

Rikki is a darn good naturalist and if you put him in the tall grass, he can talk for hours about the spiders and such he finds there.

To visit Rikki's blog go to: http://sourpersimmon.blogspot.com

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