Your Outdoor Photos: February 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., Feb. 2, 2024

Photos in This Album

I took this picture at High Drive on June 20, 2024. This picture is of Bachlor Button also known as a corn flower. It is being focused in while the background is of a sunset around 8:30 pm.

Photographer: Anna Gimlett
Busy beaver collecting samplings for dinner near Harrison, Idaho on Lake Coeur d' Alene.

Photographer: Joe Terhaar
These two eagles seem to be having a great time telling each other funny stories. Taken from our place in Suncrest. Feb 27, 2024

Photographer: Steve Feider
Coyote at Saltese Flats keeping a close eye on me. 2/27/24

Photographer: Mark Hendrickson
A very pretty Red - tailed Hawk gives me a good look easy to see where it gets it's name. Taken Feb 26 2024 East of Davenport W.A.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.
How many do you see found this Mule deer heard north of Davenport W.A. Taken Feb 26 2024

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.
93.6% Waning Gibbous moon rising above Brownes Mountain.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
98% waning moon setting behind a ponderosa pine in the early morning hours.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
98% waning moon setting in the western sky.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
2-23-2024 Driving through Four Mounds and I thought Mt Spokane was erupting!! The Snow Moon.

Photographer: Karen Soenke
Snow full moon ascending through the clouds.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Snow full moon ascending behind the clouds.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Railroad bridge over the Priest River flowing in to the Pend Oreille, Idaho, 2-23-24

Photographer: Nia Patton
A roosting Saw - whet Owl notice the dense cover that it is in. Taken Feb 23 2024 West of Cheney.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.
99.8% Snow Full Moon rising over ridge east of my yard.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
A Northern Saw - whet Owl peaks out at me from it's dense roosting hide away.. They are only 8 inches tall our smallest Northern Owl.. Taken Feb 23 2024 west of Cheney.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.
Squirrel high atop a maple tree.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
The spokesman review used to give a price for the first butter cup, found in Spokane when I was a little kid growing up in the area. Our family still always looks for the first buttercup. I found this butter cup on February 12 in the Dishman Hills area and this is the earliest I have ever seen a butter cup in Spokane due to the extremely mild winter Sincerely, Joel Armstrong A.k.a. Spokane Duckman

Photographer: Joel Armstrong
98.0% Waxing Gibbous Moon.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Spring is just around the corner on Turnbull as these two Hooded Mergansers were courting a female won't be long now. Taken Feb 21 2024.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.
Nothing beats a good willow breakfast for this wintering moose on a wet morning on Turnbull. Taken Feb 21 2024.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.
Frozen mud puddle, Stateline Road, December 27, 2023

Photographer: David Dowers
89.5% waxing gibbous moon

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Red Shafted Northern Flicker perched in a tree on a rainy morning.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Northern Flicker woodpecker on a rainy morning.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Male House Finch on a rainy morning.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
American robin on a rainy morning.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
River Otters breaking thru the ice, posing for picture. Spokane River near Seven Mile. 2/17/24

Photographer: Mark Hendrickson
River Otter running across the ice on the Spokane River near Seven Mile. 2/17/24

Photographer: Mark Hendrickson
Big Sky country, Montana, 2-18-24

Photographer: Ron Patton
82.9% Waxing Gibbous Moon

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Coming at you! (I was at the far end of the pond and he flew directly up and over me.) Trumpeter Swan, Turnbull Refuge, Middle Pine Pond ten days ago

Photographer: Jerry R O L W E S
65.6% Waxing Gibbous Moon.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Robin eating the fruit of a mountain-ash.

Photographer: Steven Leachman
52.4% waxing moon at noon.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Goldeneye taking a run for it, 2-14-24, Pend Oreille River

Photographer: Nia Patton
High Selkirk Mountains view, 2-13-24

Photographer: Ron Patton
33.8% waxing crescent moon.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Blue Heron along Spokane River at Riverside State Park. 2/13/24

Photographer: Mark Hendrickson
23% waxing crescent moon.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
On a early February winter birding trip to Arizona I found the most popular bird in the American Southwest the Roadrunner it stopped for a second and gave me a shot. Taken Feb 6 2023 South of Tuson Arizona.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.
American robin in the rain.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
A Scottish Highlander enjoying some sun in Pend Oreille County, 2-9-24

Photographer: Nia Patton
A Goldeneye duck breaking the water after a dive, Pend Oreille River, 2-9-24

Photographer: Nia Patton
Bald Eagles sparring at Saltese Flats. 2/6/24

Photographer: Mark Hendrickson
Geese taking flight from pond at Saltese Flats. 2/6/24

Photographer: Mark Hendrickson
Squirrel in the clump river birch

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Latah Creek was full up and the mist was hanging low on this walk through Vinegar Flats at the beginning of February

Photographer: Melaine Williams
River otter atop the ice after he ate his catch, Turnbull Refuge, Friday 2-2-24

Photographer: Jerry Rolwes
River otter enjoying a fish atop the ice at Turnbull Refuge Friday 2-2-24

Photographer: Jerry Rolwes
Sunrise from the first week of February. Taken from the Centennial Trail in Kendall Yards

Photographer: John Wehrer