NYC Nature Walks - Tumblr Posts

I noticed this cool spider web on someone's hedges this morning. I assume the bottom spherical thing is an egg sac, but I didn't know what the oblong bit was (for all I know it could have been a price of dried bird poop that got caught in the webbing). If anyone has any knowledge or guesses, let me know! Side note: I often take pictures of cool bugs, plants and (non-human) animals that I come across in my wandering about the city. I don't always know what they are, but I figure they're interesting enough to be worth sharing. I'll be collecting these posts under the tag "NYC nature walks", if that's of any use to anyone.