Your Outdoor Photos: November 2020

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Sun., Nov. 1, 2020

Photos in This Album

Everyone has to beat the heat in their own way….

Photographer: Richie Holschen
Peeping Tom in West Spokane off Grandview.

Photographer: Richard Kayne
Trumpeter swans at Turnbulll Wildlife Refuge. Taken February 12th

Photographer: Steve Degenhardt
Baby it’s cold out there. I don’t need a thermometer to tell me that. Taken of my rain chain on my back patio. December 18 th.

Photographer: Gary Prusa
Cougar gulch area November 2022 Getting no where fast Hanging on for a wild ride

Photographer: Shirley leer taken by Peggy Albertson
At McKenzie River restaurant 57th

Photographer: Michael Keller
Taken Sunday at McKenzie River restaurant on 57th

Photographer: Michael Keller
Robin suppertime

Photographer: Spike Lynch
Robin suppertime

Photographer: Spike Lynch
Lazuli Bunting taken on Sunday May 15, 2022 in the Spokane Valley

Photographer: Tim Villard
Sunrise this morning on Loon Lake

Photographer: Rodger Busch
The wooded areas within Rockwood South Retirement Community are home to lots of wildlife. This morning I spotted this good looking female coyote.

Photographer: SPIKE LYNCH
Taken at Rockwood South Retirement Community. She is enjoying the various wooded areas. Taken 10 AM Dec 15.

Photographer: Spike Lynch
Riders on the field. Slavin Conservation area 10.15.22; submitted two photos, can select whichever is better.

Photographer: Joseph Harsri
Riders on the field. Slavin Conserv Area 10.15.21

Photographer: Joseph Harari
Urban reforestation..or fall harvest Photo 9/18/2021 Lincoln Heights 2705 E Mt Vernon Dr

Photographer: Carol Landa-McVicker
Taken while floating on Lake Pend Oreille in the Panhandle National Forest on Tuesday September 14th, 2021

Photographer: Diane Metzger
Lake Pend Oreille, Scotchman Peak. Taken November 28.

Photographer: Carol Smucker
Sunrise on Lake Pend Oreille, looking toward the Cabinet Mountains. Taken November 29.

Photographer: Carol Smucker
This fellow lay patiently waiting while the doe he's been following browsed on our flowers and bushes. Photo taken 11/20/20 at our house 5 miles south of Spokane.

Photographer: Rex Stahly
Spotted this moose the morning of November 27th, 2020 in the Dishman Hills Natural Area.

Photographer: George Stratman
We spotted this moose in the Dishman Hills Natural Area on the morning of November 27th, 2020.

Photographer: George Stratman
A spawning salmon has no chance for survival once a Bald Eagle has spotted it. The circle of life continues as the symbol of our great country displays its hunting prowess, often barely touching the water to snatch a fish.

Photographer: Deborah Cole
A Great Horned Owl sits in silence in a beautiful setting on a cold wet foggy morning on the Turnbull wildlife refuge. Taken 11 24 2020.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich
Addendum to photos sent (sorry)---both photos sent were photographed this month in Hauser . Thanks.

Photographer: Angela Marie
Thanksgiving?!? ACK!!!! I am a unicorn! Nope, not a turkey, I am a unicorn! The snood is a distinctive feature of the male turkey. It has no known function except for the helpful turkicorn disguise. Happy Thanksgiving!

Photographer: Angela Marie
The symbol of Thanksgiving that was nearly our national bird. Ubiquitous to our outdoors, the wild turkey is beautiful in its own way. Proudly strutting their iridescent feathers are the males or toms. Wild turkeys can fly up to 60 mph, run up to 20mph, can see in color three times better than humans, hear another tom a mile away, and roost in trees at night. They are still bummed about that one loss vote to the Bald Eagle. Happy Thanksgiving!

Photographer: Angela Marie
Owl looking backwards in Spokane Valley, October 2020.

Photographer: Mark Pillsbury
This Great Blue Heron was so close to me I dared not to move I was sure it could hear my breathing. Photo taken on Cannon Hill Park on the South Hill Nov. 20, 2020.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney Wa
A female Belted Kingfisher whips away water after its dive into Cannon hill park pond on a frosty morning on Nov. 20, 2020.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney Wa
Moose spotted the morning of Nov. 20, 2020 (approximately 9 a.m.) at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge.

Photographer: George Stratman
A beautiful sunset at Turnbull Wildlife Refuge capped off a beautiful walk!

Photographer: Deborah Cole
A beautiful sunset at Turnbull Wildlife Refuge capped off a beautiful walk!

Photographer: Deborah Cole
Canadian geese enjoying the waters of James T Slavin Conservation Area in early November.

Photographer: Melaine Williams
A drenching rain fell on Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge mid-November. Even the swans got wet.

Photographer: Melaine Williams
Reaching for the last leaf in autumn's home stretch, the kinglet will soon need to conserve energy by puffing up and fluffing his feathers when sleeping. They subsist primarily on moth caterpillars found over-wintering on trees. Smaller than a chickadee, the kinglets have four times more feather mass committed to insulation than to flying in the winter. Almost too fast to see and keep up with but worth the wait! Photographed in the Slavin Conservation Area the past month.

Photographer: Angela Marie
A wild tom turkey seen near Marshall, Wash. in mid November. He doesn't want the invite to Thanksgiving.

Photographer: Melaine Williams
Happy Thanksgiving! A large Tom turkey was part of a big flock in the Marshall area seen mid November.

Photographer: Melaine Williams
this picture of a Dark-eyed Junco was taken in our backyard in Spokane Valley on Nov. 6, 2020.

Photographer: Terry M Sanborn
The ladybugs are getting ready to hibernate for the winter. Pictured here are thousands or more on the trail close to the Little Spokane River Natural Area as seen Nov. 7, 2020.

Photographer: Carrie Dugovic
Acting as sentinel to his covey on this windy day, this California Quail gets a little extra lift in his whirring wings. These irresistible birds are adored by many of us in the West. Photo taken this past month at Reardan Audubon Lake.

Photographer: Angela Marie
Antlers and legs are all you see as these two titans slowly walk away after pushing one another around for sometime. Taken on the Turnbull wildlife refuge on a rainy morning on Nov. 6.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.
A portrait of the Turnbull wildlife refuge during the fall season so many colors and the wildlife in all their splendor and majesty. Taken on the refuge Nov. 6.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.
I've been working on a house in Deer Park and we had some unexpected visitors who have been hanging around all week. Thursday I was working on the patio on a ladder, got down to move and noticed something out of the corner of my eye. It was this momma moose and her young'un, about 20 feet away. Apparently they kneel down to get a drink off the ground.

Photographer: Tom Peacock
Our winter friends from up North are starting to arrive. This is a Gray-crowned Rosy finch. They live in Alaska and northern Canada and move South for the winter normally found in flocks. My wife and I found a flock of them on Steptoe butte on Nov. 5. A very colorful bird.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.
Setting Blue moon on Steptoe Butte Sept 3, 2020. It was a fascinating shot on the side of Steptoe Butte. It was framed by these yellow pines at about 7:45 AM.

Photographer: Jerry Rolwes
A couple of horseback riders enjoy the fall splendor of the James T Slavin Natural area in south Spokane at the beginning of November.

Photographer: Melaine Williams
James T Slavin Conservation area in the fall. The waters were just teaming with birds the first week of November.

Photographer: Melaine Williams
This is a Northern Flicker in my backyard in the Garland neighborhood.

Photographer: Tom Bauer
Beautiful tree at Cannon Hill.

Photographer: Cody Wagner
Fountain at Cannon Hill.

Photographer: Cody Wagner
This Barred Owl was seen while taking a late afternoon walk on Derby Street in Pullman. I had not seen one of these before. Thank heavens I had my cell phone.

Photographer: Patricia Magaret
The squirrels in Corbin Park were taking advantage of the nice weather to eat and hide nuts for the upcoming weather. Seen the end of October

Photographer: M Melaine Williams
This is a Bufflehead duck. I shot this on Thursday, Oct 29 at the pond, third green of Meadowwood Golf Course, corner of Molter Road and Valleyway. I live very near. I first saw the Buffleheads in April. Took some pictures of them then, but nothing like this. I took this about 15 minutes before sunset, and the light was just awesome. Shot this through the chain link fence with a Canon G3x zoomed out near the end around 600mm. I have lived out here for 10 years now and this is the first year I have seen the Buffleheads.

Photographer: Mitchell O'Connor
The Marshall wetland area off of Gardner Road near Cheney-Spokane Road in Marshall is set ablaze by a late October sunset.

Photographer: M Melaine Williams
Overjoyed by the October snowstorm, the otters of Hauser playfully snow-wrestling on a Saturday morning in late October.

Photographer: Angela Marie
Disgruntled by the October snowstorm, granddaddy blue heron fishes in the single digit wind chill of Hauser on a Saturday morning in late October.

Photographer: Angela Marie
Bull moose, Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge early morning breakfast on Oct. 15, 2020 browsing in deep woodland. He looked so happy eating the soft succulent leaves. He cocked his head, looked sideways at me almost as if he was smiling.

Photographer: Jerry Rolwes