Your Outdoors Photos: May 2017

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Mon., May 1, 2017

Photos in This Album

Maks and Owen Page taking in some sun on MountHood: 11 months in a row skiing!

Photographer: TR Page
Maks and Owen Page enjoying the sun up on Mt Hood. 11 months in a row of skiing.

Photographer: TR Page
Lorey Chillbeck with her first Lake Roosevelt sturgeon, released.

Photographer: Brandon Collier
Kayaking along the Pend Oreille Bay Trail near Sandpoint on a gloriously warm and sunny Memorial Day holiday.

Photographer: Susan Drumheller
Pine pollen is everywhere, including dusting the flowers and bumblebees. April 29 at Four Lakes.

Photographer: Gary Miller
Among the first quail chicks of the season, May 28.

Photographer: Terry Gray
Milky Way and my jet ski, Upper Twin Lakes, May 28.

Photographer: Bob Salsbury
Northern Lights, Upper Twin Lakes, Idaho. May 27.

Photographer: Bob Salsbury
A rare and weird Proton Arc, Upper Twin Lakes, Idaho. May 27.

Photographer: Bob Salsbury
A Virginia Rail very solitary creature, in Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge. May 26.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney Wa.
Drone shot of Chimney Rock and Selkirk Crest, May 21.

Photographer: Benjamin Read
A calliope hummingbird nectars on nepeta blooms on my deck on the South Hill. I captured the image earlier this month. He was my first hummingbird this season, arriving in mid-April.

Photographer: Cortney Litwin
A foggy sunrise over Latah Creek while being serenaded by a choir of coyotes.

Photographer: Randy Belstad
Chimney Rock, last week of May.

Photographer: Olivia Chantry
Hiking with pack goats.

Photographer: Lauren Ling
Lilac City in bloom, Manito.

Photographer: Heather Kaer
Aluminum Overcast B-17 WWII bomber flying over Plantes Ferry Park.

Photographer: Mike Gass
White-crowned sparrow, Four Lakes, Wash., May 5.

Photographer: Gary Miller
New snow on May 16 at Mount Spokane. Why did we put away our snowshoes?

Photographer: Ken Vanden Heuvel
Male Wood Duck guarding the nest box while the female was inside. Loon Lake, WA, May 10.

Photographer: M J Lovell
Fire plane practicing on Loon Lake, May 12.

Photographer: M J Lovell
Ocean view from bluff at Moclips, WA, May 3.

Photographer: M J Lovell
Killdeer.

Photographer: Mike Forster
Often heard but seldom seen, a Sora in full matting plumage at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, May 12.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney Wa
A white-lined Sphinx moth (a.k.a. hummingbird moth) gathers nectar from dandelions at Steptoe Butte, May 9.

Photographer: Marlene Cashen
Spider molts all over the trees, flapping in the wind.

Photographer: Heather Kaer
An unknown worm creature at Thornton Murphy. It was so very fast and hard to get a photo of.

Photographer: Heather Kaer
Dragonfly visitor May 12.

Photographer: Heather Kaer
Mark Ham with his 14-inch, 2-pound smallmouth bass from Newman Lake, May11.

Photographer: mike forster
Snow fun at Schweitzer Mountain in May.

Photographer: Olivia Chantry
Western meadowlark sitting in an arrowleaf balsamroot plant was located by its song on May 10 at Steptoe Butte State Park.

Photographer: Sharon Lindsay
I got the stare down by this bald eagle early on the morning of May 9. It was a pretty powerful moment making solid eye contact like that.

Photographer: Matthew Orion Stephens
Osprey perched lower than normal on a fence post soaking in some early morning sun on May 9 near Cheney.

Photographer: Matthew Orion Stephens
Killdeer near nest on ground along Spokane River.

Photographer: Mike Forster
Western kingbird by Spokane River, Trentwood.

Photographer: mike forster
The Rocks of Sharon with two climbers for scale.

Photographer: Mike Gass
Just a Sparrow? Or maybe a beauty like this one. May 7, in Lincoln County.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney Wa
Dandelion seed head.

Photographer: Terry Gray
The rewards we're reaping from all the rain we've been having - May flowers. May 7, West Plains, Cheney.

Photographer: Cindy Miller
A rufous hummingbird makes a migration stop in Cheney. May 4.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney Wa.
Thunderstorm over RV park in Richland Washington. May 4.

Photographer: Bob Salsbury
Spring wheat is late in getting planted this year because of wet conditions. This made for a nice patchwork of green winter wheat and bare soil on the Palouse, as seen from Steptoe Butte on May 4.

Photographer: Craig Goodwin
A leading laker lunker in the 2017 Lake Pend Oreille Spring K&K Fishing Derby.

Photographer: Lake Pend Oreille Idaho Club
Pacific tree frog.

Photographer: Terry Gray
Fairy slippers are out, May 3.

Photographer: Bruce Andre
A great blue heron takes flight over Hangman Creek on April 21.

Photographer: Cortney Litwin
Mrs. Killdeer with chicks (she has 4 chicks under her; 2 sets of legs are visible and a foot from a 3rd; when she got up there were 4 chicks). May 5 at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich, Cheney
Phlox in the highlands of Okanogan County

Photographer: Susan Doty Andelfinger
A redhead struts his stuff on Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge

Photographer: Buck Domitrovch, Cheney
American robin on her nest at Liberty Lake Park.

Photographer: Mike Forster
Canaeda goose at Hauser Lake.

Photographer: Mike Forster
Mountain chickadee near Newman Lake.

Photographer: Ken Vanden Heuvel
Canada geese and goslings on Hauser Lake, May 1.

Photographer: Mike Forster
The Spokane Mountaineers build trail in the Glenrose Unit addition to the Dishman Hills Conservation Area.

Photographer: Jeff Lambert
Mountain biking among blooming arrowleaf balsamroot, Riverside State Park, May 1.

Photographer: Sue Niezgoda
A dazzling male rufous hummingbird appeared at my home on the South Hill, April 30.

Photographer: Cortney Litwin
Tree swallow on nesting box, Newman Lake April 28.

Photographer: Mike Forster
A good reason for an early tee time.

Photographer: Randy Belstad