I was alerted to the presence of a particularly rare spider in Scotland which is more -or-less on my doorstop, and only there. I made the pilgrimage a few miles east, fully thinking that I would spend an hour staring at rocks with no luck. However, it wasn't to be and I was able to quite easily locate a few specimens (1m 2ff) of said spider. A later search by someone more conscientious turned up a good many more.
I was lucky enough to get one in the binoculars just as it began to display to a female, waving its palps in the air like a Mexican wave before shaking up and down at the "knees". I guess that process was successful as they ran off up the hill together. Or maybe that's what failure looks like. I tried to make a video, but because the sun was on the screen all I managed was a video of a nearby stone.
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