As you can perhaps see from the background of my photograph, I spotted this, my first large spider of the year, in the same location as My first moth of the year, described in Wednesday’s blog, on the fencing panels that surround a nearby building site. And I’ve blogged about this species before, when I first found one last April. This is the spider Larinioides cornutus and, though the location might seem a bit odd, as I wrote in that earlier blog, this is a species that prefers living on vegetation in damp places but can also be found on built structures in those areas, hence its presence on these fencing panels alongside a path opposite the vegetation edging the River Taff.