A few days ago I was standing in our living room watching an Orb spider rebuilding its web outside just a few feet away. Orb spiders build those beautiful circular webs that act as a net to capture flying insects during the evening. Normally they start spinning their webs at dusk but this guy started at about 6pm when the sun was still up and it wouldn't start getting dark for a couple more hours. I had been watching this orb spider for several weeks and it had grown pretty big during that time.
I was entranced with its web building project while watching it bounce up and down in the springy web. I was startled when a Mocking bird suddenly swooped down, snatched the spider and disappeared out of view......