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Your Outdoors Photos: September 2019

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.

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  • A perfect day for this fly fisherwoman to cast her line into the Spokane River near the Bowl & Pitcher at Riverside Park. Last week of September.

    Photographer: Melaine Williams

  • A fly fisherman takes advantage of the nice 1st day of fall weather casting his net in the Spokane River near the Bowl & Pitcher at Riverside Park.

    Photographer: Melaine Williams

  • A coopers hawk takes a break on the South Hill. 9/7/10

    Photographer: William Siler

  • A coopers hawk take s a break on a South Hill fence. 9/07

    Photographer: William Siler

  • A coopers hawk take s a break on a South Hill fence. 9/07

    Photographer: William Siler

  • A coopers hawk takes a break on the South Hill. September 9.

    Photographer: William Siler

  • A coopers hawk takes a break on the South Hill. September 9.

    Photographer: William Siler

  • By the way this is my berry patch found this Black Bear feeding on berries in Southwest Montana. Taken Sept 19 19

    Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.

  • These are both the same Great Horned Owl I was lucky enough to spot at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge on Sept. 15 this year.

    Photographer: Rich Zywiak

  • These are both the same Great Horned Owl I was lucky enough to spot at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge on Sept. 15 this year.

    Photographer: Rich Zywiak

  • A Downy Woodpecker enjoys the seeds of a Mullein weed along the Columbia Plateau Trail near Fish Lake in mid September.

    Photographer: Melaine Williams

  • Blue Heron Fort to Sea Trail, Ft. Clatsop National Monument near Astoria OR.

    Photographer: Jim Schmitz

  • Sunset at Iredale Beach, Ft. Stevens St. Park Hammond OR.

    Photographer: Jim Schmitz

  • Coffenbury Lake at Ft. Stevens St. Park

    Photographer: Jim Schmitz

  • An Eagle that just caught a fish and perched in a tree next to our deck. Twin Lakes, Idaho, September 9, 2019

    Photographer: HERB SMETHERAM

  • Out of velvet and ready for the fall rut found this large bull moose putting on a few more pounds before the main event begins. Turnbull wildlife refuge Sept 12 19

    Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.

  • A mother deer shows her baby how to get bird seed from the feeder in Cheney behind the Cheney Care Center the second week in September.

    Photographer: Melaine Williams

  • Fall is in the air with cooler temperatures and subtle changes in the color of leaves along the trail. A stroll by horseback was enjoyed by mother and daughter at Riverside State Park. Taken September 7, 2019.

    Photographer: Cindy Miller

  • Mountain Ash Berries.Cabinet Mountains Montana. September 2019

    Photographer: Bruce Cunningham

  • Ojibway Mountain. Cabinet Mountains Montana

    Photographer: Bruce Cunningham

  • Rock Lake. Cabinet Mountains Montana. September 2019

    Photographer: Bruce Cunningham

  • Rock Lake. Cabinet Mountains Montana. September 2019

    Photographer: Bruce Cunningham

  • Photograph of female California quail taken in my backyard on 7/24/19 on the South Hill in Spokane, WA.

    Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner

  • Portrait of Red-tailed hawk taken near my house on the South Hill, Spokane, WA on July 30, 2019.

    Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner

  • Red-tailed hawk photograph taken on Labor day afternoon, 9/2/19, in my backyard on the South Hill in Spokane, WA.

    Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner

  • This Praying Mantis is exactly the same color as the dry grass he is perched on. Seen along the Columbia Plateau Trail near the Amber Lake trailhead 1st week in September

    Photographer: Melaine Williams

  • The Fall ritual is about ready to start this fine Bull Elk is already gathering his cows and starting to bugle. Turnbull wildlife refuge Sept 3 19

    Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.

  • A Great Horned Owl looking for the next meal in our Colbert backyard. We kept our small dog out of the yard and on a leash!

    Photographer: John Hooover

  • 5 Mule deer bucks just before they go out of sight over the hill I had to keep waiting to get all 5 in the frame. West of Cheney. Aug 20 19

    Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.

  • Baby swallows lined up for feeding - Main Street, Republic, WA

    Photographer: Nancy McCambridge

  • A hummingbird on my backyard in Nine Mile Falls this summer.

    Photographer: Angela Roth

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