And then came a spider...

jillw · #1 (**permalink**) 13-07-2007, 11:35 PM

Hi

I found my way here trying to identify a spider I spotted in my garden. Turns out it was a garden spider...

Something tells me I'm going to learn a lot here, and enjoy doing it.

Live by a canal in London, boring job, love trees, flowers, plants and green things in general. Favorite moment of the day is sharing breakfast with my canal friends; coots, mallards, moorhens, chaffinches, carp, bream, geese, wrens and woodpigeons. Oh, and spiders.

Gytrash · #2 (**permalink**) 13-07-2007, 11:41 PM

Hi JillW

From another newbie.
(Joined today)...

Looks like a great forum...

buzfuz8149 · #3 (**permalink**) 14-07-2007, 06:16 AM

Hi JillW,

A warm welcome to WAB, always wanted to live on a canal or by one, you are fortunate to share breakfast with your canal friends, having said that I share mine with my woodland friends

. Looking forward to your posts and photos.

Carol.

goosey · #4 (**permalink**) 14-07-2007, 01:56 PM

Hi JillW, your breakfast time sounds a bit more exciting than mine you lucky thing -well apart from the spiders - you are welcome to them

Enjoy yourself here and welcome to WAB, I will see you around

.

wildlifesnapper · #5 (**permalink**) 14-07-2007, 07:51 PM

and my wife ran a mile

Hi JillW,

welcome to WAB , hope you enjoy it.

neil

GME · #6 (**permalink**) 14-07-2007, 08:19 PM

Hi Jill,

How lucky to live so near to such a fantastic ecosystem

I'm very jealous (though not about the spiders! I love insects but still am not too keen on our 8-legged friends when they get too close

)

Welcome to WAB

demicav · #7 (**permalink**) 14-07-2007, 08:49 PM

Hi Jillw and welcome to WAB.

Deer Stalker · #8 (**permalink**) 15-07-2007, 01:28 AM

Hi Jillw.

jillw · #9 (**permalink**) 15-07-2007, 09:26 AM

Thank you all for your warm welcome.

Yes, the canal is a wonderful place to live beside, after years of living in a very, very crowded part of London it was absolute bliss to have been able to move here as I'm really a country girl at heart (I was born and mostly brought up in a rural environment).

I have a few photos to show and stories to tell, but have to admit that at the moment I'm reading the forum avidly, and have already joined my local bat group as a result - I see what I think may be pipistrelles locally and am now determined to find out if that is what they are.

Oh, and the thing with spiders? Once I realised that the more spiders there were about the place, the fewer flies there are in my home, I began to really appreciate them. I'm on first name terrms with the 8 or so currently co-habiting with me. We do occasionally have minor disputes about the placing of webs, but nothing a few feathers can't settle

Jillx