Unusual spider

Found this spider on our fence in Double Oak Texas.  Ive never seen this species before.  I took some photographs of the little spider and then let it go.  The pattern on it's back is pretty unique.  I also came across a wolf spider, a yellow crabspider and some other unidentified spiders this weekend.  The yellow crabspider was one of the highlights of my photography this weekend.

Cricket frogs

I decided Friday and Saturday night I was going to go to Denton Creek and see what kind of animals I could find in the flood waters.  Friday night I went very unprepared, I was just scouting the place out.  I took a old spot light that only shines for about 4 minutes even at a full charge.  I pulled off and parked on the north side of the north bridge on 377.  I went down to the flood waters and started to hear and see frogs everywhere.  I spent about 15 minutes checking the place out before the light was gone and I left.

I wanted to go more prepared Saturday as I wanted to bring a few frogs back to photograph and hopefully find a snake or two.  I bought a good 400 lumen half spot light from Walmart that has an 8 hour battery life.  I also had some wader boots at home and a minnow net.  I was prepared this time.

I went out about 9:45 to the same spot.  I started wading through the water catch a frog here and there.  I ended up catching 4 cricket frogs, another unided frog that got away and a Texas Brown Snake.

I had only been there about 15 minutes.  I started to wonder why I hadn't seen any larger snakes.  I was quite confident this is the prime location  for water snakes.  About that time I spot a very large Cottommouth about 4 foot long climbing through the weeds a few feet from me.

These are some pictures I took of the Cricket Frogs.