Your Outdoor Photos: April 2023

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Wed., April 5, 2023

Photos in This Album

Otter playing in the duckweed near Hauser.

Photographer: Angela Marie Slotten
White tailed squirrel seen in Kalispel Bay, Priest Lake July 16, 202e

Photographer: Carol J McVicker
White tailed squirrel seen in Kalispel Bay, Priest Lake

Photographer: Carol J McVicker
Early morning Lake Fernan, ID: Can you find all five white tail deer in this pic? I went to Fernan Saturday morning early and these five ladies posed for me along the lake drive. I captured the image of three of them but the other two got out of sight--but they are still there.

Photographer: Jerry Rolwes
A Sagebrush sparrow sings it's song a sparrow of large tracks of sagebrush in wide open country in the spring they will sit on top of the sagebrush and sing their song. Then they will pretty much seclude themselves for the remainder of their stay Take North of Soap Lake April 15 2023

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.
Blue birds on the waterville plateau

Photographer: Rick Dixon
For the past three to four years, a Canada goose chooses this mound of grasses surrounded by low lying water left from winter snows in a field to make her nest. If anyone appears to be watching this nesting goose or getting too close, she ducks her head and blends in as well as she can. April 12th, Pend Oreille County

Photographer: Nia Patton
So you think you are having a bad hair day? That what this Beaver seems to be thinking as it climes out onto the bank. Taken April 12 2023 Turnbull wildlife refuge.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.
A Beaver gives me the eye I knew they were on Turnbull but had never seen one on the refuge until now. A nice surprise. Taken on the Turnbull wildlife refuge April 12 2023

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.
Spokane's mascots were out along the Centennial Trail near town in mid April. They were upset that I didn't have anything to give to them.

Photographer: Melaine Williams
Tom Turkey displaying gloriously after very slowly strutting proudly across Hwy 20 north of Newport, WA, early morning, April 9th.

Photographer: Nia Patton
Female Downy Woodpecker enjoying a snack near Marshall at the beginning of April.

Photographer: Melaine Williams
Robins are a sure sign of spring on the Waterville plateau.

Photographer: Rick Dixon
Robins are a sure sign of spring on the Waterville plateau.

Photographer: Rick Dixon
Pink full moon rising over Brownes Mountain last night.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Hang in there! I wouldn't have returned if it wasn't spring. After a nice long warm winter in Central or South America the osprey of Hauser return to the day each year. What a welcome sight!

Photographer: Angela Marie Slotten
The delicate purple flowers of the Grass Widow…a sure sign that spring has arrived! March 28, 2023 at Dishman Hills Natural Area

Photographer: Lisa Giegel
Photo taken 3/24/23. Springtime temperatures have the blue herons in bloom! A group of great blue herons perched near Medical Lake, Wa. I’ve never seen more than 1 or 2 together and certainly not in the same tree.

Photographer: Rich Zywiak
A Doe Mule Deer in the neighbor's yard over looking Corbin Park. Taken 27 March 2023 in the Garland district. I was about 100 ft away.

Photographer: Tom Bauer
This Doe Mule Deer showed up in our neighbors yard on Monday the 27 of March. She didn't seemed to concerned about me photographing her as there is a big wrought iron fence between the yards. Taken in the Garland District. Who needs to go out in the woods for wildlife?

Photographer: Tom Bauer
Wild Peacocks on the roadside, Westside Kalispell, Pend Oreille County, March 28th

Photographer: Nia Patton
Elk grazing in Kalispell Valley, Pend Oreille County, March 28

Photographer: Steve Patton