Out & About

OUTSEE

MAC, Audubon highlight birds

The Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture is helping the Spokane Audubon Society celebrate the region’s birds, as well as the club’s 45th anniversary:

Exhibit, through March 15, at the MAC, 2316 W. 1st Ave. – “Dabblers, Divers, Murderers and Travelers,” as the exhibit is named, features interactive displays, photos, and 200 archival specimen mounts of birds that reside or pass through this region.

Free program, Nov. 12 at Riverview Center downstairs auditorium, 1801 Upriver Dr. Use the Granite Street entrance – MAC curator Marsha Rooney and Audubon member Tina Wynecoop will present a program detailing the exhibit.

OUTBREAK

Moose have a dark side

Two Billings residents can verify that moose can go from docile to ferocious in an instant.

Walking along a creek near Red Lodge, Mont., Nadine and Ron Steel were exercising their dog recently stumbled upon the moose and her calf.

The moose charged Ron, knocked him down and began pawing at his chest.

When Nadine hit the moose with her dog’s leash, the cow kicked her twice in the head and stomped on her.

Ron was able to get up and chase the animal away.

Bruises, stitches but still alive.

Yikes.

OUTSPOKEN

Readers chime in

Among the notable feedback to recent Outdoors feature stories:

Remote game cameras are good for more than outing big bucks roaming your neck of the woods, said a caller identifying herself only as Terri.

“They’re also good for catching poachers on private land,” she said. “We were having problems, so we put up the cameras and bingo, they worked. We caught our neighbors.”

Good hunting dogs are priceless, said Al Gauper. “We have a cocker spaniel of good breeding and I’m sure it would be a great hunter if I had time to train it – and if my wife would allow me to get the dog dirty.”

OUTLOOK

Best fishing times

Lunar tables from the U.S. Naval Observatory. Be fishing at least one hour before and one hour after peak times. Applies to all time zones.

Through Nov. 16

Today

9 p.m., 9:25 a.m.

Monday

9:50 p.m., 10:15 a.m.

Tuesday

10:45 p.m. 11:15 a.m.

Wednesday

11:45 p.m. –

Thursday

– 12:15 p.m.

* Friday

12:45 a.m., 1:20 p.m.

* Saturday

1:55 a.m., 2:25 p.m.

Next Sunday

3 a.m., 3:30 p.m.

See the Hunting-Fishing Report every Friday in Sports