Your Outdoors Photos: November 2017

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Tue., Oct. 31, 2017

Photos in This Album

Geese heading north above the Spokane River

Photographer: Wes Hedrick
The Chase 2 Blue Heron playing above the Spokane River near GU on Wednesday morning

Photographer: Wes Hedrick
Mallard preening on the Spokane River....Dec. 1 2017

Photographer: mike forster
Just a Robin ! look again a beautiful Varied Thrush. Taken near Davenport Wa November 28 17

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich
Bald eagle with a kokanee in its talons. Higgens Point, Lake CdA, Nov. 27.

Photographer: Terry E. Parker
Mature bald eagle captured Nov. 27, at Higgens Point, Lake CdA.

Photographer: Terry Parker
Bald eagle going in for the catch, Wolf Lodge Bay, Nov. 26.

Photographer: Michele Palmer
Colorful cutthroat trout, Nov. 26.

Photographer: Wayne Jordan
Snowy owl visits Lincoln County to hunt, Nov. 25.

Photographer: Craig Goodwin
American kestrel female near Moscow, Idaho, Nov. 24.

Photographer: Terry Gray
This snowshoe hare is not too happy about the abnormally warm weather on Thanksgiving Day, for good reason. I also found the fresh remains of a devoured hare. They turn white this time of year for camouflage in snow. Without snow, they stand out like beacons.

Photographer: Ken Vanden Heuvel
Wolf Lodge area near Lake Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

Photographer: Doug Fredericks
A trumpeter swan takes a bath at Turnbull Wildlife Refuge, Nov. 18. A second adult swan was nearby.

Photographer: Cortney Litwin
Nov. 18: Trumpeter swans at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge. Pictured are two adults surrounded by four juveniles with pink bills. The family huddled together when 10 swans, trumpeting loudly, flew in from another area.

Photographer: Cortney Litwin
Sarah Brede of Spokane went "tree skiing" near Thompson Pass on Nov. 19, bringing a fresh Christmas tree nearly 1,000 vertical feet back to the vehicle.

Photographer: Mike Brede
Found someone parasailing off Steptoe Butte on Nov. 18. I watched for half and hour as the person floated back and forth, up and down. Was exciting to watch but burr it was cold. Freedom

Photographer: Susan Orlowski
Was on Greenbluff to buy apples on Nov. 17. and spied this wonderful display at High Country Orchards. The display really spoke to me of Thanksgiving.

Photographer: Susan Orlowski
I went to Steptoe Butte on Nov. 18 to look for birds but was surprised by someone took advantage of the winds and went parasailing over the butte. I was cold but I can imagine that the person under the parachute was much colder for sure. Floating Free

Photographer: Sue Orlowski
Spokane Valley squirrel, Nov. 17.

Photographer: Vickie Garner Sienknecht
A bald eagle snatches a spawning kokanee from the Wolf Lodge Bay area of Lake Coeur d'Alene. A total of 37 eagles was counted by BLM at Wolf Lodge Bay on Nov. 16. Last year the number peaked at about 260 by mid-December.

Photographer: Jerry Rolwes
Nov. 15 was a fine day to ski UP and then DOWN the slopes of Mount Spokane, two days before the lifts were set to open for the season.

Photographer: Jason Hershey
Ever Feel You're Being Watched? Nov. 14, Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge: great horned owls frequent the area. Sometimes you're fortunate enough to see one up close.

Photographer: Gary Miller
Bighorn rams in southwest Montana, Nov. 13.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney Wa.
These tundra swans sure look like parents scolding their kid for misbehaving! They were among more than 100 swans at Slavin Conservation Area Nov. 12.

Photographer: Cortney Litwin
Great horned owl, Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, Nov. 15.

Photographer: Cindy Miller
I'm not sure if this enormous swan is a tundra or trumpeter, but it was among 100-plus swans, along with hundreds of Canada geese, at Slavin Conservation Area on Nov. 12.

Photographer: Cortney Litwin
A pair of trumpeter swans at Slavin Conservation Area on Nov 12. Most of the 100-plus swans were tundras.

Photographer: Cortney Litwin
Tundra swans were frolicking (scuffling?) at Slavin Conservation Area on Sunday. There were at least 100 swans there, most of them tundras, but I did see a pair of trumpeter swans.

Photographer: Cortney Litwin
I've seen a lot of Canada Geese in one place at one time, but never as many as were on the Spokane River between Barker and Harvard today, Nov. 14, a perfect day for a fall walk on the Centennial Trail.

Photographer: Melaine Williams
A beautiful rough-legged hawk enjoys a beautiful sunny morning in southwest Montana, Nov. 12.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney Wa.
A full curl ram and then some in southwest Montana, Nov. 13.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney Wa
Squirrel on the ground under my bird feeder, Nov. 13.

Photographer: mike forster
Sunrise on Nov. 13 from Tubbs Hill, Coeur d' Alene, Idaho

Photographer: David Taylor
Walking in Manito Park.

Photographer: Jane McDonald
Hanggliding from Steptoe Butte State Park, looking down over Hume Road and the white waves of snowy Palouse farm land toward Tekoa Mountain.

Photographer: Steve Baran
Fallen leaves mixed with snow and ice near Davenport.

Photographer: Susan Orlowski
On Nov. 8, I saw 300-400 snow buntings on Coffeepot Road in Lincoln County.

Photographer: Sue Orlowski
Little brother Owen Page joins the family "Turns All Year Club" on Nov. 8 on Mount Spokane.

Photographer: TR Page
Swans taking off and ducks getting out of the way at James T. Slavin Conservation Area, Nov. 7. Swans were everywhere! Flying, sleeping, swimming, and calling.

Photographer: Gary Miller
The scent of love is in the air in Ferry County, at least if you are a bighorn sheep. The rut is on.

Photographer: J. Foster Fanning
The sky was just magic behind the windmills above vantage on Thursday November 2, 2017.

Photographer: Melaine Williams
Punching some pow with my 11-year-old buddy for all seasons, Koda.

Photographer: Jason Keen
Bull moose, Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge.

Photographer: Jerry Rolwes
On our morning run in Clarkston

Photographer: Jane McDonald
Grande Ronde River

Photographer: Jane McDonald
Grande Ronde River

Photographer: Jane McDonald
Going down Rattlesnake Grade toward the Grande Ronde River.

Photographer: Jane McDonald
Mountain biker Dan Wilson plummets down an "advanced" roller feature at Beacon Hill/Camp Sekani area. The rock is a purely optional route just above the trail Old School.

Photographer: Chris Madunich
Foggy Monroe Street Bridge

Photographer: Wes Hedrick
Along Rattlesnake Grade

Photographer: Jane McDonald
Leaves are falling rapidly off the trees. Enjoying one more beautiful ride before the cold sets in. Fan Lake, Oct. 29.

Photographer: Cindy Miller
A little color on a hike near the Little Spokane River.

Photographer: Randy Belstad
A young calf moose has breakfast on a damp foggy morning Turnbull wildlife refuge Oct 26 17.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney Wa.