Your Outdoors Photos: February 2016

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Mon., Feb. 1, 2016

Photos in This Album

This photo was shot April 15th, 2017 on the South Hill. When a great blue heron landed next to the red winged blackbird the blackbird was ready to defend his territory.

Photographer: Sandra Murillo
Fly Fisherman gets in some casting in the Spokane River along the Centennial Trail east of Argonne Roas

Photographer: Melaine Williams
Tundra Swans are coming back to Pend Oreille County 2-27-16

Photographer: Karen Soenke
On my way home from work I saw this beautiful Iridescence Cloud. I of course had to pull over and take some pictures. It reminds me of a feather.

Photographer: Lori Pence
A pair of collared-doves hanging out in the backyard, sharing a picture of one of them (2/27/16).

Photographer: Michele Palmer
Male Merganser trying to go up stream......Feb. 26th Plantes Ferry

Photographer: michael forster
On Chilco Mountain near Athol, ID.

Photographer: Robert Henrich
Common Mergansers at Plantes Ferry, Spokane River

Photographer: michael forster
This was taken at the top of Mineral Ridge in Idaho on Valentine's Day weekend. I went with some girlfriends and it was a great bonding trip!

Photographer: Susan Reyes
Dry Falls, WA. This was taken mid December, and is definitely worth the drive from Spokane. It is a great history lesson for kids too.

Photographer: Susan Reyes
Full moon couple nights ago ... SCC area from the back yard of my friends house

Photographer: Francisco ayala
this was tonight just outside of Moses lake

Photographer: Christie
This was taken tonight at sunset just outside of Moses Lake

Photographer: Christie
Full Snow Moon the other night, February 23rd, 2016. Taken in Odessa, WA.

Photographer: Becky Nelson
Sunrise at Fairchild AFB, Feb 24, 2016

Photographer: Kara Czernik
Mineral Ridge Viewpoint (located above Beauty Bay east of Coeur d'Alene) on a beautiful sunny February afternoon. The BLM has done a great job keeping this beautiful public asset in fabulous shape. Thanks BLM! Keep up the good work.

Photographer: Steve Davidson
My city

Photographer: Sarah Davis
A peak over the city

Photographer: Sarah Davis
Washington Water Power from under the Monroe Street Bridge

Photographer: Ray FitzGerald
Spokane Valley, 2/24/16

Photographer: Justin
Liberty Lake, 2/25/16

Photographer: Justin
Beautiful sunrise in North Spokane today, Feb. 24, 2016.

Photographer: Gayla Aspenleiter
Kelli Hornbaker reels in a rainbow trout caught in the lower Spokane River's murky February flows.

Photographer: Dan Barth
A Robin sits atop an abandoned car signaling the return of spring!

Photographer: Dakota Smoll
A Great Horned Owl hunting in the night at Liberty Lake Regional Park. This shot was a 2.5 sec exposure. The owl didn't move for the entire shot.

Photographer: Dakota Smoll
Trumpeter swans feeding at the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge.

Photographer: Dakota Smoll
My tracks on Goat Mountain with Scotchman Peak towering over, proposed Scotchman Peaks Wilderness, Sunday, 2/21

Photographer: Ken Vanden Heuvel
View of Lake Pend Oreille from Goat Mountain, proposed Scotchman Peaks Wilderness, Sunday, 2/21.

Photographer: Ken Vanden Heuvel
Swans on Newman Lake, McKenzie Conservation Area

Photographer: Ken Vanden Heuvel
Sunrise, McKenzie Conservation Area, Newman Lake

Photographer: Ken Vanden Heuvel
One more pic of the trumpeter swans I saw yesterday at the James T. Slavin Conservation Area.

Photographer: Cortney Litwin
Trumpeter Swans have arrived at the James T. Slavin Conservation Area in Spokane. I captured this image on Monday, Feb. 23.

Photographer: Cortney Litwin
Found this tabby in a tree 2 months ago...he's turned into a great guard cat...was ready to take on several deer in the field ;) Greenacres WA

Photographer: Sue Riener
Blue Birds showed up on Saturday. 2-20-2016 - Long Lake (Lake Spokane)

Photographer: Karen Soenke
Walking the Stubblefield loop trail at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge this past Saturday. The clouds rolling across the sky above the ponds and prairie created a mesmerizing skyscape.

Photographer: Kaye Dieter
Along the Spokane River

Photographer: Jane McDonald
A February, golden hour, Palouse barn photo. I arrived an hour before sunset, I should have started out a lot sooner. This was one of those days that good photos could be taken throughout the day as the clouds rolled through the area.

Photographer: Mike Gass
Last week from the roof of the Spokane County library. The sky was amazing this evening!

Photographer: Amy Lashet
The Fish Lake trail comes to an abrupt halt about a mile or so from Fish Lake. BNSF won't give right away for the last little bit, so Fish Lake Trail never reaches Fish Lake, go figure!

Photographer: Melaine Williams
This little guy was going back and forth from the frozen pond to the water at Cannon Hill park.

Photographer: Dan Price
Spokane Falls on February 10th

Photographer: Dannette Taylor
Mountain Chickadee in Chewelah, WA photographed on February 7th.

Photographer: Ashley Karsh
Manila Creek

Photographer: Sam Halvorsen
Bridge Creek

Photographer: Sam Halvorsen
Bohemian Waxwings are winter visitors in the Northwest, migrating south from Canada and Alaska. I captured this image from my deck on the South Hill on Tuesday. I last saw the colorful birds on Christmas Day.

Photographer: Cortney Litwin
Spokane before dawn

Photographer: Jane Martin
The beauty of our falls. Photo taken Monday night

Photographer: Christine Wright
Moose near Prichard, ID.

Photographer: Dakota Smoll
No buttercups but lots of little 'shrooms Saltese Uplands 2/15/2016

Photographer: Bob Salsbury
on a buttercup hunt! Saltese Uplands 2/15/2016

Photographer: Bob Salsbury
A fawn stands in front of a calf elk and its mother near Wolf Creek Lodge.

Photographer: Dakota Smoll
Immature bald eagle taking off near Harrison, ID.

Photographer: Dakota Smoll
Honoring our 32nd president at Lake Roosevelt on Feb. 15, 2016.

Photographer: Dan Hansen
Looking for breakfast along a pond in the Skagit Valley

Photographer: Bruce Turner
Govan Schoolhouse between Almira and Wilbur 90 miles west on Hwy 2. This old school held its last class in 1942.

Photographer: Mike Gass
Downy Woodpecker in my backyard (2/13/16)

Photographer: Michele Palmer
Mt. Baker from Skagit Valley

Photographer: Bruce Turner
Wintery afternoon at Mt. Spokane State Park. Feeling pretty ragged after much cross-country skiing and a little snowshoeing to find solitude in the largest state park.

Photographer: Todd Dunfield
Sunset out here in Odessa, Wash. on Sunday February 7th, 2016

Photographer: Becky Nelson
Sign of an early spring? I went for a hike on Tubbs Hill in Coeur d'Alene on Saturday and was delighted to see lots of green.

Photographer: Cortney Litwin
Anticipating an early Spring found some collared-doves on a little drive off of Staley (north of Spokane), February 6.

Photographer: Michele Palmer
Sunrise on Feb 6. It was exciting to watch this develop as the light and colors changed.

Photographer: Mike Gass
New snow north of Riverside State Park

Photographer: Bruce Turner
Abandoned on the Palouse. We found this on a drive between Spangle and Washtucna on the backroads.

Photographer: Mike Gass
Went with a friend to Palouse Falls on the last Saturday in January. I was interested to see the Palouse River was a chocolate brown from erosion.

Photographer: Mike Gass
Riverfront clock tower

Photographer: Tom Tyson
Riverfront clock tower

Photographer: Tom Tyson
St. John's cathedral

Photographer: Tom Tyson
Skinny skiing on the Ferry County Rail Trail bridge at north end of Curlew Lake.

Photographer: Steve Bryant
Sherman Peak as seen by snowshoeing the Sherman Peak Loop from Sherman Pass.

Photographer: Shuwen Wangs
Vulcan Mountain bighorn sheep: pregnant ewe.

Photographer: J. Foster Fanning
Sunset on the Spokane River

Photographer: Craig Goodwin
Palouse Falls, Jan. 30, 2016.

Photographer: Matthew Orion Stephens
A brief glimpse of a mountain chickadee.

Photographer: J. Foster Fanning