Your Outdoor Photos: May 2025

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., May 2, 2025

Photos in This Album

Two curious deer on a trail near Leavenworth on May 15.

Photographer: Carol Olsen
Yellow headed blackbirds at Saltese Wetlands 5/6/25

Photographer: Mark Hendrickson
Brewer's Blackbird calling out in Stevens County. 5/12/25

Photographer: Mark Hendrickson
A ring necked pheasant says good morning at the Saltese Flats natural area. Taken 5/10/25

Photographer: Rich Zywiak
Badger visiting at Lake Spokane.

Photographer: Jeff Smith
A Spotted Sandpiper sings it's song after a heavy day of rain and the sun just shing through Turnbull wildlife refuge. Taken 5 12 2025

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.
Eurasian Collared Dove in flight.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
An eaglet calling out with mother eagle in the background. Not sure what the story is there. May 11, 2025, Pend Oreille County.

Photographer: Nia Patton
Side profile of a marmot.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Nap time Manito Park May 10, 2025

Photographer: Ron Large
Cormorant in Manito Park May 9, 2025

Photographer: Ron Large
Great Horned Owl, Glen Tana Property, Spokane, May 7.

Photographer: David Taylor
A mallard mom out with her brood on Medical Lake. Taken 5/7/25

Photographer: Rich Zywiak
Marmot

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Florida Manateee enjoying a long cool refreshment of water from a hose, Marathon, FL, May 6th

Photographer: Steve Patton
Its always so nice to see the splash of yellow when these guys come back to the wetlands as seen at James T Slavin Conservation area the second week of May

Photographer: Melaine Williams
Magpie peeking out from the maple tree in the backyard.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
The pelicans have started to return for their yearly visit to the area. This single pelican was on one of the ponds at the Turnbull National Wildlife refuge the second week in May.

Photographer: Melaine Williams
Dad's home! Blue heron returning to nest. Taken in northern Idaho 5/6/25

Photographer: Mark Hendrickson
Great Blue Heron enjoying the catch of the day. Taken in a flooded field in north Idaho. 5/6/25

Photographer: Mark Hendrickson
Calypso orchid, May 5th, Tubbs Hill, Coeur d' Alene

Photographer: David Taylor
This goose (who thinks it is an osprey) was seen along the Spokane River west of Barker Road.

Photographer: Carol Olsen