Dave....No. Because it wasn't a Bird-eating spider's web. Interfering with
nature, maybe. But I don't think there would be many birders that could walk
past a struggling finch and not do anything.
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: David Stowe
Sent: Sunday, 16 March 2008 8:12 PM
To: Steve
Cc: 'Belinda Cassidy';
Subject: Bird eating spider?
Hi Steve,
Can i cheekily suggest that by "rescuing" the finch you were indeed
championing the cause of birds over other animals?
It died anyway and the spider lost a meal that it caught fair and
square :)
Cheers
Dave Stowe
On 16/03/2008, at 7:46 AM, Steve wrote:
> Belinda......The other day I rescued a Double-barred Finch from
> Spiderweb.
> The bird was totally exhausted and,unfortunately, died shortly
> after. This
> was very sad. But it would not have occurred to me to kill the
> spider. My
> advice is to have equal regard for all native creatures and not
> champion the
> causes of birds over other animals.
>
> Cheers Steve Murray
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> On Behalf Of Belinda
> Cassidy
> Sent: Saturday, 15 March 2008 6:47 PM
> To:
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Bird eating spider?
>
> Hello!
>
> We have an enormous spider in our yard (in Brisbane) that we
> haven't seen
> before. Its spectacular, with a body length around 7-8 cm. I
> think I have
> ID'd it correctly as `Nephila pilipes' The Northern Giant Orb
> spider. The
> link to the photo I took of it today is below:
>
> http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj144/Serenity-photos/SPIDER.jpg
>
> So when I was trying to ID it on google, I came across a youtube
> video of
> one of these eating a young lewin honeyeater that it had trapped in
> its
> nest. OMG!
>
> We are friends with our local birds and wouldn't want to see them
> eaten by a
> giant spider! But its also a very cool giant spider!
>
> Should we kill it to stop it from eating birds and breedng up a
> colony of
> giant bird eating spiders? Or just leave it? I don't want to kill
> it, but
> then I'd feel pretty cut if a young bird I know died in its web.
>
> Thanks for your opinions!
>
> Cheers,
> Belinda
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