Spider !!!

 While taking some students on a walk to identify cover and food value in  a pheasant cover crop yesterday morning we saw this;

I'm no expert on spiders but the students are now determined to work out exactly what it is. On the same day some of the students found stag beetle larvae in a tree stump while setting traps for grey squirrels. It's great to see that they are interested in the things they find outdoors not just what they are being directed to concentrate on.