Your Outdoor Photos: December 2024

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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Thu., Dec. 5, 2024

Photos in This Album

A pileated woodpecker (red crest) and a hairy woodpecker busy finding bugs under the bark of this ponderosa pine at Higgens Point on Lake Coeur D’Alene. Photo taken 1/11/24.

Photographer: Rich Zywiak
A bald eagle with his Kokanee salmon snack. Taken 12/28/24 at Beauty Bay on Lake Coeur d’Alene.

Photographer: Rich Zywiak
A bald eagle coming in to grab a Kokanee salmon at Beauty Bay on Lake Coeur d’Alene. Taken 12/28/24.

Photographer: Rich Zywiak
In this, the last week of Decemeber, I was walking down Gardner Road past the Marshall Wetlands I noticed 2 people in the water with duck and geese decoys. I was out with camera in hand taking pictures so snapped some. They questioned what I was doing and asked if they weren't supposed to be hunting here, that their hunting ap said it was OK. I said I had no idea but it was a wetland, so probably no, and continued on my way. In speaking to Fish and Wildlife I was told it was a refuge and so not OK to hunt in. They had left when I went back by a little later. I guess the moral of the story is the aps aren't always right and to make sure that an area isn't protected before hunting in it.

Photographer: Melaine Williams
Taken northeast of Cheney at 11 am 12/28/24. He was just strolling by. Maggie Stout

Photographer: Maggie Stout
Juvenile bald eagle perched at Higgins Point. 12/20/24

Photographer: Mark Hendrickson
An Elk calling out a greeting, Pend Oreille River Valley, 12-19-24

Photographer: Nia Patton
A bald eagle just before picking up a Kokanee salmon at Beauty Bay on Lake Coeur d’Alene. Taken 12/14/24.

Photographer: Rich Zywiak
86.7% Waning Gibbous Moon.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Immature Bald Eagle at Wolf Lodge Bay Coeur d'Alene on December 14th

Photographer: Terry Sanborn
Full Cold Moon rising through the clouds.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Eagle arriving with a salmon. North Shore Drive, Lake Coeur d' Alene, ID. Last week.

Photographer: Jerry R O L W E S
Eagle arriving with a salmon. North Shore Drive, Lake Coeur d' Alene, ID. Last week.

Photographer: Jerry R O L W E S
Eagle arriving with a salmon. North Shore Drive, Lake Coeur d' Alene, ID. Last week.

Photographer: Jerry R O L W E S
Eagle showing off its tail feathers. Early December at Higgins Point.

Photographer: Mark Stoeser
A young Whitetail buck from out of the wild caught sampling a neighborhood eatery meant for the birds. Usk, WA, December 5th, 2024

Photographer: Nia Patton