Your Outdoors Photos: March 2016

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Tue., March 1, 2016

Photos in This Album

Turnbull NWR - Wetland sunset - march 25, 2016

Photographer: Erik Lewis
This was taken outside Moscow Idaho looking west towards Washington

Photographer: Chris Gilbertson
Spider in Manito

Photographer: Heather Kaer
Spider close up

Photographer: Heather Kaer
Bee and pollen

Photographer: Heather Kaer
Manito flowers in bloom

Photographer: Heather Karr
Mission Mountains from Hwy 200 on 3-17-2016 Sun setting on the Flathead River valley.

Photographer: Karen Soenke
Rolling Hills of the Palouse from Steptoe Butte March 19th 2016 https://www.facebook.com/nikipaytonphotography/

Photographer: Niki Payton
Monroe Street Bridge and Spokane Falls at dusk

Photographer: Craig Goodwin
Caught a break from the rain this afternoon, the robins were out singing. (March 27, 2016)

Photographer: Michele Palmer
Spring in Spokane

Photographer: Jane McDonald
A chickadee was listening to (and answering) the distinctive three-tone call of another chickadee on the other side of my property on the South Hill today. It sounded like a round of Marco Polo.

Photographer: Cortney Litwin
Flying off into the sunset, taken from Arbor Crest Hill, Spokane Valley March 16th

Photographer: Les Radnor
Taken at a friend's property in Newman Lake on March 14th

Photographer: Les Radnor
Taken March 13th at a friend's place in Newman lake.

Photographer: Les Radnor
On Friday I captured what appears to be an optical phenomena known as a solar corona. I first saw it through a window and thought it was a trick of the glass. I grabbed my camera and went outside. Yep, there was a colorful arc above the sun. It disappeared a few seconds later.

Photographer: Cortney Litwin
Correction of the photo I just submitted - Saw a herd of Tundra Swans near Usk, beautiful birds they are (March 20, 2016)

Photographer: Michele Palmer
Taken on Stutler Rd near Spangle, Washington. The last photo to close out winter.

Photographer: Mike Gass
Female Belted Kingfisher near Lake Fernan March 2016

Photographer: deb opsal
A Palouse sunset southwest of Tekoa, Washington. A beautiful end to a stormy day.

Photographer: Mike Gass
Gold Finches on the feeders on a lazy afternoon. 1pm March 17, 2016. Lind, Washington

Photographer: Lee Kanzler
The six-foot wingspans of cranes make them easy to spot as they glide over the fields around Othello. Photo taken March 7, 2016.

Photographer: Sharon Lindsay
The cranes can often be located by their loud calls. They sometimes can be seen “dancing”, which is done to impress other cranes. Photo taken March 13, 2016.

Photographer: Sharon Lindsay
The local fields provide food and resting areas for the cranes as they migrate to nesting grounds in Alaska. It is common to find them sharing the grain leftovers with cattle in last year’s corn fields. Photo taken March 13, 2016.

Photographer: Sharon Lindsay
They’re back! The sandhill cranes have returned to the Othello, WA area, just in time for their annual festival, March 18-20, 2016. Photo taken March 7, 2016

Photographer: Sharon Lindsay
3/13/2016 - Icicles in the Kettle River Range, Jungle Hill trail.

Photographer: Ken Vanden Heuvel
I captured this image of swans doing their thing at Turnbull Wildlife Refuge on Friday.

Photographer: Cortney Litwin
Northern Flicker in my backyard, in the rain (March 12, 2016)

Photographer: Michele Palmer
Not quite Spring yet, but Spring like conditions with passing storms and rainbows. A barn in the Palouse.

Photographer: Mike Gass
While out walking our dogs on our property today, we came across this baby. We turned around figuring mom wasn't far away.

Photographer: Randee J Bybee
Crepuscular morning rays over Lake Washington 3/10/2016

Photographer: Bob Salsbury
sunrise over Eastern Washington 3/10/2016

Photographer: Bob Salsbury
Male House Finch's red feathers will become brighter as nesting season draws closer

Photographer: deb opsal
Early morning sun lighting up the McKenzie Conservation Area and Newman Lake

Photographer: Ken Vanden Heuvel
We had some drama at Riverfront Park today. One enraged Canada goose was trying to chase away other geese, ducks and even humans. I wonder if nesting season had it all riled up. Geese at the park are usually so mellow.

Photographer: Cortney Litwin
Star trails and Northwen Lights reflected in marshy waters near Reardan, Washington. This is a combination of 150 individual exposures.

Photographer: Craig Goodwin
Dark-eyed Junco foraging under my feeders in Lind Washington on Friday March 4, 2016.

Photographer: Lee Kanzler
Spotted Towhee foraging under my bird feeders in Lind Washington on Friday March 4, 2016

Photographer: Lee Kanzler
The unseasonably warmer weather is creating an early runoff of the Spokane River.

Photographer: Mike Gass
Off the cul-de-sac on Gunning Drive there's a popular trail that leads to DNR land. The first buttercups just started blooming along the trail, under the big power lines.

Photographer: Ladd Bjorneby
Looking over at the Mineral Ridge National Recreation Trail from the Beauty Bay Recreation Site overlook. The Beauty Bay Recreation Site has an ADA accessible trail to the overlook. Beautiful spot well taken care of by the BLM. Thanks BLM.

Photographer: Steve Davidson
Bald Eagle in December - Lake Coeur d'Alene

Photographer: deb opsal
Eurasian collared dove on my potting shed roof March 2 2016

Photographer: michael forster
Bald Eagle Soaring over Colbert WA. Feb 29th

Photographer: David S Huck
Marmot up at Colbert

Photographer: David Huck
Exploring part of the Centennial Trail through Riverside State Park at the speed of a 5 year old.

Photographer: Todd Dunfield
Hybridized red-shafted northern flicker in Coeur d'Alene. This male has some red feathers on its nape, which is a trait of the yellow-shafted variety.

Photographer: Deb Opsal
Whitetail doe in Spokane Valley.

Photographer: Chuck Hartshorn
Priest Lake, edging toward a new season.

Photographer: Pecky Cox
Buttercup.

Photographer: Jim Cummins
Seasonal waterfall in Frenchman Coulee area of central Washington.

Photographer: Ken Vanden Heuvel