Your Outdoor Photos: July 2022

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Wed., July 13, 2022

Photos in This Album

Shaggy Parasol mushrooms. Little Spokane River Natural Area. Photo taken the last week of September by nature photographer Rich Leon.

Photographer: Rich Leon
A bull moose taking an afternoon rest near the Columbia Plateau Trail in Cheney. Photo taken September 14.

Photographer: Rich Zywiak
A male Osprey delivering breakfast to his family in Kendall Yards. He will eat the head before dropping off the fish so the offspring won’t get hurt by it flopping around. The Spokane Club is in the background. Taken 8/15/22.

Photographer: Rich Zywiak
A pair of crows fly above Big Creek along the St. Joe River on July 6, 2022, outside of Calder, Idaho.

Photographer: Madison McCord
A baby porcupine finds some shade at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge. Taken 7/25/22.

Photographer: Rich Zywiak
Grouse chick, Cabinet Mountains, Idaho

Photographer: David Taylor
Bat and "bat bugs" 7-21-22 Four Lakes, WA This appears to be a "big brown bat" that happened to find its way into our house. With the help of leather gloves and a fishnet, we gently caught him and put him up on our rock chimney to fly away. After I took this shot, I noticed the bugs on his wings, and research shows they are common "bat bug" related to bedbugs (not appealing).

Photographer: Gary Miller
Time to tuck in for the night. Momma turkey roosts in the tree sheltering her two poults under her wing and tail. Sweet dreams. A July evening in Hauser.

Photographer: Angela Marie
Time to tuck in for the night. Momma turkey roosts in the tree sheltering her two poults under her wing and tail. Sweet dreams. A July evening in Hauser.

Photographer: Angela Marie
Now just who are you my mom was just here a minute ago. Taken 7 10 2022 Southwest Montana.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.
A nice fat Green worm might be a good dinner choice a that is if you are a MacGillivray's warbler like this one. Taken july 10 2022 Southwest Montana

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.
Western sky last night.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Papa quail keeping a lookout over his little chicks.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Papa quail schooling his little chick.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Canola field along the Palouse Highway. July 2022

Photographer: Bruce Cunningham
Baby robin

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Robin fledgling

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Robin fledgling that left its nest earlier in the week

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Cooper's hawk with its prey

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
This picture was taken by my daughter Alison Sok, last Sat. 7/9/22 at the Lavender Fields Festival in Deer Park, WA.

Photographer: Caryn Alley
Hungry robin chicks in nest on front porch of South Hill bungalow

Photographer: Sam Nystrom
Urban Osprey One of the Kendall Yards summer resident ospreys glides high above the Spokane River. She dove down to wet herself in the river so that she could cool off her babies in the nest. Taken July 12, 2022

Photographer: Rich Zywiak
The Columbian Ground Squirrel is an engaging animal full of entertaining antics. Their standard greeting consists of touching their noses and mouths together for about 1-5 seconds. This family was spotted near Hauser. They can be found in central Idaho and western parts of Montana, along with northern and eastern reaches of Washington up into the Rockies of Canada.

Photographer: Angela Marie
The beargrass on Mt. Spokane is gorgeous this year! Trail 160 on July 8, 2022.

Photographer: Lisa Giegel
The beargrass on Mt. Spokane trail 130. It’s a spectacular show this year! July 8, 2022

Photographer: Lisa Giegel
The beargrass is spectacular on Mt. Spokane this year! July 8, 2022

Photographer: Lisa Giegel
Male House Finch.

Photographer: MARY JO A STAUNER
Baby robin one day after leaving its nest.

Photographer: MARY JO A STAUNER
Male House Finch primping himself in the clump river birch tree.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
They seemed to be walking on the water of the Marshall Wetlands the second week of July.

Photographer: Melaine Williams
These 4 deer were cooling off in the water at the Marshall Wetlands the second week of July. Guess they wanted their day at the beach

Photographer: Melaine Williams
Robin fledgling that left its nest earlier this morning along with two of its siblings.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Earlier this morning all 3 robin chicks successfully left their nest. I was able to photograph 2 of them right before and after they took the plunge. The first one had already exited before I knew it as I happened to be out working in my yard when this happened.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
3 baby robins squished in their nest like sardines in a can (it looks like one of the parents must have introduced red berries into their diet as I see some on the upper left corner of the nest).

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Night Hawks at Riverside State Park 7AM 10 July 2022

Photographer: charles wisowaty
Hummingbird feeding on tubular flowers.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Red Shafted Northern Flicker woodpecker putting on a display of orange brilliance.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Threes a crowd

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Red Shafted Northern Flicker Woodpecker

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
A new resident of Turnbull Fed Game Refuge. A young coyote hunting chipmunks. He was very busy but took time to look up and investigate a very long telephoto lens. Taken very early 07-04-22. Canon camera with a 600 mm lens.

Photographer: Jerry Rolwes
Magpie perched on the fence.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
3 little robin chicks about a week after they were born.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner