Your Outdoor Photos: February 2023

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 in 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!

Upload your photo

Section:Reader Photo

Wed., Feb. 1, 2023

Photos in This Album

Wild Turkeys engaged in a shoving match with beaks interlocked. This behavior is exhibited to determine a pecking order for breeding in the spring. This went on for at least a half an hour in Hauser area.

Photographer: Angela Marie Slotten
A cow moose and yearling pose for a photo on a cool winter morning. Taken February 19th near Newport.

Photographer: Steve Degenhardt
Merganser coming up from dive, Pend Oreille River, 2-18-23

Photographer: Nia Patton
Trumpeter swans do a dance on Pine Lake at Turnbull Wildlife Refuge near Cheney. Taken on February 12th.

Photographer: Steve Degenhardt
Female House Finch perched in the maple tree.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Male House Finch perched in the maple tree.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
A mallard pair and some geese checking out Davis Creek starting to flow again after the ice melts, 2/14/23, Usk, WA

Photographer: Nia Patton
A couple of geese placidly swimming down the Pend Oreille River, 2/11/23

Photographer: Nia Patton
What! you again as this moose seems to wonder as I find her and her yearling having breakfast on a frosty morning on Turnbull wildlife refuge. Feb 15 2022

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.
Hooded Merganser ducks take to the water at Turnbull mid February.

Photographer: Melaine Williams
We were walking in Turnbull wildlife refuge when I took this photo of a Coyote on February 9th 2023.

Photographer: Terry Sanborn
Trumpeter Swans have returned to Turnbull wildlife refuge. This photo was taken on February 9th 2023.

Photographer: Terry Sanborn
Looking south at Pend Oreille River flowing North, Cusick, WA, February 2, 2023

Photographer: Nia Patton
93% Waning gibbous moon setting in the western sky earlier this morning.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
An immature Red-tailed hawk sits atop an old fence post the hawk will get it's red tail feathers at the start of it's second year. Taken February 6 south of Cheney W.A.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.
Found this cow moose and her yearling having their breakfast as winter lingers on probably waiting for sunny days and a greener pasture. Turnbull wildlife refuge February 6 2023.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.
Sunset is happening later and later. Yay, springs on the way! Cheney at the beginning of February.

Photographer: Melaine Williams
88.2% Waxing Gibbous moon.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Little Labrador Retriever puppy sitting in a snowy driveway, not so sure this is where he wants to be.

Photographer: Steve Patton
Winter at Iller Creek Conservation Area on a sunny afternoon in late January 2023.

Photographer: Lisa Giegel
A Norther Harrier flies right over my head east of Davenport W.A. this is a male as it is Gray in color females and Juvinalls are brown in color They have a facial disk similar to an owl formally called a swamp hawk. Taken January 30 2022

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.
He's a wild thing. Happy frost morning. Cheney end of January.

Photographer: Melaine Williams
Photo of Pelican taken North of Moses Lake on spring creek January 24, 2023

Photographer: Barry Pipella