Just a few tidbits from around the area. We have spent a few hours trawling around the state park for some interesting photo ops. The photos below show what I have come up with. By the way, the photo of the spider needs identification. If any of you can help me with this arachnid ID give me a holler. I am not an expert on snakes either, but the nearest I can come to, is I believe it to be a Rat Snake. Okay, so the snake isn’t a beast, but a reptile. But it had a beastly expression on it’s face. Besides, I needed a catchy title for this blog 🙂 Enjoy the pictures. Click on any image to see an enlargement.
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Unidentified Spider
Bullock's Oriole
Rat Snake
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Texas Tweeties by Bob Zeller 
That’s the one. Definitely. Thanks Ken and others that tried to help, including Tony of San Antonio.
This spider may be a Western Spotted Orb Weaver. Compare to the following link:
http://www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.asp?identification=Western-Spotted-Orb-Weaver
Thanks, Tony. I had no idea. Bob
Tony, on second thought, I don’t think it is a Marbled Orb Weaver, after all. Since last evening I done research and looked at several dozen Marbled Orb Weavers. They all looked alike and they all had reddish legs. However, not one of them looked like my photograph. Could it be some kind of variant?
I believe your spider is a Marbled Orb Weaver.
Based on some of my past posts I thought that would be apt. 🙂
By the way, I like the utter nonsense.
Thought I might be able to identify the spider. Looked thru my field guide and came up dry. Beats me what it is.
I done some researching and came up with zero also.
Bob
P.S. The web was strung between a couple of desert scrub.