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Your Outdoors Photos: September 2016

The Inland Northwest is full of flora, fauna, waters, scenery and active people out to savor it all. Please visit this gallery regularly to share photos of your wild experiences, learning moments, hot discoveries, favorite trips. Help us build a visual tour of what's so great about the outdoors in this region through all four seasons. This photo gallery will be an inspiration to some people. To others it will be a reminder of why we love to live here -- and get outside as much as possible.

NOTE: Before photos show up on the reader photo gallery, they must be approved by an editor. If yours does not show up immediately, fear not. The only likely delay is that an editor has not had a chance to approve new photo submissions yet. Thanks for participating!

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  • Canon Hill Park

    Photographer: Lori Pence

  • I took this at Canon Hill Park yesterday, the hen was trying to take a nap.

    Photographer: Lori Pence

  • Blue Heron sunning himself at Waitts Lake on Monday, Sept. 26, 2016.

    Photographer: Gayla Aspenleiter

  • Bald eagle checking out Waitts Lake on Monday, Sept. 26, 2016.

    Photographer: Gayla Aspenleiter

  • Sunset Cruise on Mica Bay, Coeur d'Alene, Sept. 26, 2016.

    Photographer: Eljay

  • Praying mantis

    Photographer: Vickie Sienknecht

  • Catching some wind on the Pend Oreille River yesterday. 9-23-2016

    Photographer: Karen Soenke

  • Found this fine Bull elk at dawn on Turnbull wildlife refuge outside Cheney. Sept 20 2016

    Photographer: Buck Domitrovich

  • This juvenile male Anna's hummingbird is one of four Anna's I've seen regularly that is still in the South Hill area. I captured the image at my home on Sept. 11.

    Photographer: Cortney Litwin

  • Maks Page getting September checked off the list up on Mt Rainier. Turns all year.

    Photographer: TR Page

  • Sage Brock gets a safe, but closeup view of a bear from a canoe on Moose Creek Reservoir, east of Moscow.

    Photographer: William Brock

  • Sage Brock paddles in bow of canoe close to a black bear on shore of Moose Creek Reservoir, east of Moscow, Idaho.

    Photographer: William Brock

  • Mule deer bucks spar at the National Bison Range in Montana.

    Photographer: Wes Hedrick

  • This handsome and very photogenic bull elk will have some competition for the cows from the numerous bulls that have been seen at the National Bison Range. (9/18/2016)

    Photographer: Sharon Lindsay

  • Bull elk on his way to the Mission Creek area at the National Bison Range. (9/18/2016)

    Photographer: Sharon Lindsay

  • Bobcat hunting in a field near Mission Creek, National Bison Range. (9/17/2016)

    Photographer: Sharon Lindsay

  • Big horn sheep were seen on the downhill side of Red Sleep Mountain Road at the National Bison Range. (9/17/2016)

    Photographer: Sharon Lindsay

  • Black bear sow and cubs seen along Red Sleep Mountain Road in the National Bison Range.

    Photographer: Sharon Lindsay

  • Elk submerge their heads to feed on aquatic plants in Mission Creek at the National Bison Range.

    Photographer: Sharon Lindsay

  • The National Bison Range, near Dixon, MT and a three hour drive from Spokane, is a great place to see more than just bison. This time of year has elk hanging out along Mission Creek, with deer, big horn sheep, black bears, and much more scattered throughout the refuge. (9/17/2016)

    Photographer: Sharon Lindsay

  • Kayaking at Upper Priest Lake in September.

    Photographer: Bob Drzymkowski

  • Manito Park

    Photographer: Jane McDonald

  • I had a soggy, windblown Anna's hummingbird this morning (9/17) at my home on the South Hill. I've seen four Anna's still in the area, while most hummingbirds have departed for their southern destinations.

    Photographer: Cortney Litwin

  • Harvest moon 9/16/16 on the farm near Reardan, Wa.

    Photographer: Lori Pence

  • The evening of September 15 had almost a full moon with clear skies over downtown Spokane.

    Photographer: Bruce Turner

  • The light of the full moon shines through the windows of the Cliff House at Arbor Crest Wine Cellars.

    Photographer: Craig Goodwin

  • Shorty Peak Lookout outhouse looking south to Selkirk Mountains, near Bonners Ferry, Idaho

    Photographer: David Taylor

  • Getting ready to rumble a young bull elk on Turnbull wildlife refuge. Taken 9 13 16

    Photographer: Buck Domitrovich

  • Hiking to Myrtle Falls in the Kootenai County wildlife refuge on Sunday (9/11/16), it rained a little then the sun came out.

    Photographer: Michele Palmer

  • I am no expert by any means, though this guy may have passed during and or after the pesticide spraying at one of the parks. (Manito) Bumble Bee, not a honey bee.

    Photographer: Heather Kaer

  • Gorgeous flowers at Manito this year

    Photographer: Heather Kaer

  • Rare view of a lady bug drying off after being hit by sprinklers at Manito.

    Photographer: Heather Kaer

  • Awesome praying mantis visitor.

    Photographer: Heather Kaer

  • Manito Park visitor

    Photographer: Heather Kaer

  • Beautiful rose at Manito with a bee cleaning their antennae of pollen.

    Photographer: Heather Kaer

  • Lovely dragonfly at Manito on 9/11

    Photographer: Heather Kaer

  • This beauty is on Turnbull wildlife refuge getting ready for the rut found him on Sept 9 16

    Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney Wa.

  • Two young bull elk looking for any share in the action as the rut gets going in Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge on Sept. 6, 2016.

    Photographer: Buck Domitrovich

  • Govan Schoolhouse and the Milkyway near Wilbur, Washington. The school was closed in 1942. The bell steeple collapsed in the last year.

    Photographer: Michael Gass

  • Fishing in the mist. Upper Twin Lakes, Idaho. Saturday morning, Sept 3, 2016

    Photographer: Michael Salsbury

  • Fishing in the mist on Upper Twin Lakes, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2016

    Photographer: Michael Salsbury

  • Chimney Rock, Priest Lake Idaho. My last local adventure before moving to Seattle for the UW Oceanography Program.

    Photographer: Lisa Burk

  • Mylitta crescent butterfly.

    Photographer: Terry Gray

  • There goes the neighborhood.

    Photographer: Jesse Tinsley

  • Bowhunting season opened Sept. 1

    Photographer: G.L. Britton

  • Shorty Peak fire lookout in Idaho Panhandle National Forests northwest of Bonners Ferry.

    Photographer: David Taylor

  • West Fork Cabin is accessible by trail in Idaho Panhandle National Forests northwest of Bonners Ferry.

    Photographer: David Taylor

  • Hidden Lake from trail to West Fork Cabin in Idaho Panhandle National Forests northwest of Bonners Ferry.

    Photographer: David Taylor

  • Hiking to summit of East Fork Peak near Clark Fork, Idaho, for view of Twin Peak and the Thunder Creek drainage.

    Photographer: Mary Franzel

  • This Swainson's Hawk a long distance migrant will soon be on its way to winter in Argentina. Taken near Davenport Wa.

    Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney Wa.

  • Sunset from Mineral Ridge overlooking Lake Coeur d'Alene. I love these late summer sunsets!

    Photographer: Tiffany Hansen

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