Roy

Ådnevik Nature Reserve

Monday, 30. November 2009, 18:57:46

Today I visited the wonderful Ådnevik Nature Reserve east of Kristiansand in Norway. How fun is it to meet an old friend close to the area who joined the tour and helped me to collect spiders :-D The reserve is important because it contains a certain amount of European Yew (Taxacus baccata) and European Holly (Ilex aquifolium) in Norway.

6-eyed spiderFriends

Comments

daxonmacs # 2. December 2009, 02:02

A guy that helps collect spiders, must be a friend, indeed

I only see birches in the picture though.
But I do envy the wide forests you guys have, over there.
I guesss, I better seek comfort in some more beers, here in the concrete jungle.

Roy # 2. December 2009, 07:59

daxonmacs: Well, quite funny you mention that the guy must be a true friend helping out with the spiders. On Facebook I wrote that I was out collecting spiders together with him. That's actually the only status report I've NEVER had any comments on

Well, there are loads of Birches there too, especially along the southern border of the reserve, but you might spot the first green Holly just behind us

And why did you mention beer

I could need one right now

Any news from the concrete jungle then?

daxonmacs # 2. December 2009, 08:02

Only that I returned a few hours ago with a fresh load of beer?

I admit, I only saw the birches.
Strange that no one commented on such strange behaviour

Olga # 7. December 2009, 11:14

How many spiders did you collect ?

Olga # 7. December 2009, 11:15

btw.... you, friend... who took the picture then???

Roy # 8. December 2009, 03:20

Well, it was a bad weather, so we only collected 5 different species. BUT one of them were new for the area, so

And, you know, on my mobile camera I have a timer, so it's just to place the mobile phone on something, set the timer on i.e. 20 seconds, and then it's easy going