Your Outdor Photos: November 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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Fri., Nov. 1, 2024

Photos in This Album

There's nothing quite as pretty as a Fish Lake reflection as seen the 1st week of December.

Photographer: Melaine Williams
Sunrise at Ecola Beach State Park, looking back at Cannon Beach. Nov 2024.

Photographer: Mark Stoeser
Squirrel in the rain.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Elk herd dispersing on the beach just after sunset. Nov 2024 Cannon Beach, OR

Photographer: Mark Stoeser
Elk cow having fun and making a splash. Nov 2024, Cannon Beach

Photographer: Mark Stoeser
Bald eagle with a meal. The bald eagles have started returning to Lake Coeur D'Alene to feast on the Kokanee salmon spawning. There are already a few dozen near Higgins Point. Photo taken 11/19/2014

Photographer: Rich Zywiak
Bull Moose taking a break at Riverside State Park. 11/17/24

Photographer: Mark Hendrickson
Northern Flicker in Spokane Valley on November 15th

Photographer: Terry Sanborn
A merlin with a freshly caught long-billed dowitcher. Merlins are a small and fierce falcon that consume up to 900 birds a year! Kids were taking wildlife learning tours and there were several "Eeew gross" exclamations when I pointed out the sight to them and their tour guides. :) Saltese Flats, Sept 2024

Photographer: Mark Stoeser
Elk herd dispersing for a resting spot for the night, just after sunset. Cannon Beach, OR. Nov. 2024

Photographer: Mark Stoeser
Wood duck getting his flap on at Cannon Hill Park, from late October.

Photographer: Mark Stoeser
So cool to see this bull elk on the beach after sunset! Cannon Beach, Nov 2024

Photographer: Mark Stoeser
Elk cow getting playful in the water. I barely could capture her in frame; not the best settings for the unexpected leap!

Photographer: Mark Stoeser
Momma grooming baby elk. Cannon Beach, Nov 2024

Photographer: Mark Stoeser
Elk kisses at sunset. Cannon Beach Nov 2024.

Photographer: Mark Stoeser
These elk were nice enough to pose in front of Haystack rock for a brief moment after sunset! Cannon Beach, Nov 2024

Photographer: Mark Stoeser
Canada Geese swimming through a little patch of Beaver Moon light on the Pend Oreille River, November 15th, 2024

Photographer: Nia Patton
Canada Geese in flight following their leader's water trail, Pend Oreille River, 11-13-24

Photographer: Nia Patton
Canada Geese taking flight, Pend Oreille River, 11-13-24

Photographer: Nia Patton
Keeping an eye out. Bighorn Ram at Thompson Falls MT. 11/8/24

Photographer: Mark Hendrickson
Beaver on 11/07/24 at the Saltese Wetland

Photographer: Terry Sanborn
Red-tailed Hawk on 11/07/24 at the Saltese Wetlands.

Photographer: Terry Sanborn
A Canadian goose glides through a reflection on the Manito duck pond at the beginning of November

Photographer: Melaine Williams
A dog meets an emu bird.

Photographer: Anna Erickson
Young turkey cautiously passing by on the Pend Oreille River bank, 11-7-24

Photographer: Nia Patton
White Crowned Sparrow at Turnbull Wildlife Refuge.

Photographer: Bruce Blaser
Sorry there but you are on my post these two were having a fit about whose post it was. Taken west of Davenport 11 3 2024

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney WA.
Two Bald Eagles have a dispute over who owns the post taken November 3 2024 west of Davenport.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.