Your Outdoors Photos: September 2017

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Thu., Aug. 31, 2017

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Taken near Fish Lake mid October everyone is enjoying the unseasonably warm weather.

Photographer: Melaine Williams
So much song packed into such a small body! The common tree frog is at the top of our summer listening entertainment. Seen near Marshall second week of August

Photographer: Melaine Williams
Up Up fire lookout, Bitterroot Divide, Montana, on first day of autumn.

Photographer: Mike Brede
Bitterroot Divide had enough snow to make ski tracks on the first day of autumn.

Photographer: Mike Brede
Bitterroot Divide had enough snow to make ski tracks on the first day of autumn.

Photographer: Mike Brede
Hiking through the 'Rock Garden' glacial boulder deposits in Canada's Glacier National Park, Sept. 28.

Photographer: Steve Davidson
Peyto Lake from Bow Summit in Banff National Park on a smoke free day, Sept. 27.

Photographer: Steve Davidson
Blue heron, Little Spokane River near Colbert, WA, July 11.

Photographer: David Fisher
Dragonfly, Colbert, WA, June.

Photographer: David Fisher
Clouds looking like ocean waves from a plane 40,000 feet over New Mexico.

Photographer: David Fisher
I was watching a female moose with two babies in our neighbors yard near the Little Spokane River when a bull moose appeared and took a sudden interest in basketball! Sept. 17

Photographer: David Fisher
Little Spokane River, Sept. 17.

Photographer: David Fisher
Beaver family behind our house on Little Spokane River near Colbert. Sept. 13.

Photographer: David Fisher
I was taking a photo of some ferns next to our house when I heard a noise. I stood and turned around and this group was right behind me! I stumbled around the corner of the house then peeked back with camera and running shoes at the ready! July 7, Little Spokane River, Colbert.

Photographer: David Fisher
Kayakers gather at the annual Kootenai Fest to paddle over Kootenai Falls downstream from Libby, Montana.

Photographer: Brian Jamieson
A young bull moose photographed during a climbing trip at Grand Teton National Park.

Photographer: William Brock
Swan dive, Hayden Lake, Idaho

Photographer: Joe Dix
Swan dive, Hayden Lake, Idaho.

Photographer: Joe Dix
Taken in my front yard on the Little Spokane River at sunrise. Our sprinklers had left water drops on the tall grass and the sun shone through them.

Photographer: David Fisher
Very contented doe at Newman Lake, Sept. 19.

Photographer: mike forster
Getting pumpkins at Green Bluff

Photographer: Photo taken by Josie Dix
Sunset Beach Hayden Lake, Idaho: in the afternoon before sunset

Photographer: Photo taken by Ryan Dix
Sunset Beach at Hayden Lake, Idaho

Photographer: Kathleen Dix
Sunset Beach at Hayden Lake, Idaho

Photographer: Kathleen Dix
Wave surfing at Hayden Lake, Idaho

Photographer: Photo taken by Josie Dix
Swandive at Hayden, Lake, Idaho

Photographer: Joe Dix
Last days of summer at Harrison lake, hiking in an early snow

Photographer: Barb Conboy
Beautiful purple spikes from my backyard artichoke plant.

Photographer: Patti Livingstone
My yellow kayak in Priest Lake, Idaho on a very smokey afternoon in early September.

Photographer: Grace Lorenz
This photo was taken on a grassy hill in Manito Park, and was captured in early September.

Photographer: Grace Lorenz
Cloud-capped Mount Rainier is shown from east of Elbe, WA, while riding the Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad, out of Elbe on July 21,2017. It was early evening and a great sight.

Photographer: Paul McNabb
This photo was taken in the gorgeous rose garden at Manito Park in early September.

Photographer: Grace Lorenz
Picture from today's Meet The Editor briefing and tour at the Spokesman-Review building.

Photographer: Mike Chamberlain
Alpine larch needles are beginning to change from green to yellow in mid-September, at elevation 6,400 feet in the Okanogan country along the Blue Lake Trail.

Photographer: Teri Pieper
Mule deer fawn on Turnbull wildlife refuge, September 2017.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney Wa
Erik Rockliffe caught this spawning-run kokanee with a streamer while fly fishing on Kelly Creek.

Photographer: Wayne Jordan
Peewee Falls provides cooling mist for SUPer on Pend Oreille River in Z Canyon upstream from Boundary Dam.

Photographer: Jason Hershey
Wallowa Lake eagle enjoying a kokanee breakfast.

Photographer: Bruce Turner
Osprey hightails It! Photographed while walking through Lincoln Park.

Photographer: Pat Miller
A grayish moose feeds near Sherry Lake in Stevens County. State moose biologists say moose can have gray patches caused by infestations of ticks. In this case, however, a biologist working with moose in northeastern Washington says this healthy looking animal could be a gray phase of moose.

Photographer: Vickie Garner Sienknecht
A burrowing owl reacts to the sound of my shutter West of Cheney, Sept. 1.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney Wa.
Evening bike ride into a smoky sunset.

Photographer: Dave Trimmer
Be aware of your surroundings while backpacking in the rattlesnake country of Hells Canyon National Recreation Area.

Photographer: Kurt Killgore
Bull elk cooling off with water and mud; antlers are hardened for the September rut.

Photographer: Lindell Haggin
Rejoicing upon hiking to the realm of Chimney Rock.

Photographer: Shuwen Wang
Bow Lake after the smoke had blown out of the sky, Banff National Park, British Columbia.

Photographer: Marcus Duarte