Your Outdoor Photos: July 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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Tue., July 2, 2024

Photos in This Album

Gray Catbird having a morning snack on Turnbull wildlife reserve. The Gray Catbird can Memic other bird sounds and can make a cat like meow thus it's name. Taken July 28 2024 .

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W,A.
Bighorn Sheep stops to strike a pose. Logan Pass, Glacier National Park. July 2024

Photographer: Mark Stoeser
One of the Kendall Yards Ospreys with a red band trout from the Spokane River. It looks big enough to satisfy his 3 fledglings and their mom for a little while. Taken 7/28/24

Photographer: Rich Zywiak
One of the Kendall Yards Ospreys returning to the nest with a red band trout taken from the Spokane River. He has 3 fledglings and a mom to feed, this should satisfy them for a while. He removes the head before returning to the nest to be sure that the fish cannot harm the youngsters. Taken 7/28/24

Photographer: Rich Zywiak
Bighorn sheep basking in the sun and alpine flowers. Logan Pass, Glacier National Park. July 2024.

Photographer: Mark Stoeser
Bull moose in velvet cooling off in a lake near Many Glacier. Glacier National Park, July 2024

Photographer: Mark Stoeser
Bull moose in velvet cooling off in a lake near Many Glacier in Glacier National Park. July 2024.

Photographer: Mark Stoeser
Osprey at Saltese Wetlands on July 24th

Photographer: Terry Sanborn
Osprey at Saltese Wetlands on July 24th

Photographer: Terry Sanborn
Calliope Hummingbird in Spokane Valley on July 23rd

Photographer: Tami Sanborn
The swallowtail butterflies have been so abundant this year! This one was on some lilies in Cheney in the middle of July.

Photographer: Melaine Williams (please note spelling)
On a recent trip to Southwest Montana I found this mule deer fawn with mom having a evening snack I thought the fawn small for this late in July. taken July 20 2024.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.
Resident Great Horned Owl perched in evergreen tree earlier this morning.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Pelican morning grooming time, Pend Oreille River, July 18th, 2024

Photographer: Nia Patton
Blue Heron and Pelican crossing paths through the Flowering Rush, Pend Oreille River, July 18th

Photographer: Nia Patton
Sandpiper and bug on Pend Oreille River, July 18th, 2024

Photographer: Nia Patton
Osprey rising. Japanese Garden Manito Park July 20, 2024

Photographer: Ron Large
Bald Eagle looking for fish on the 4th of July on the Situk river near Yakutat Alaska.

Photographer: Jenna Domitrovich South Harrison road
Bald Eagle on the Situk river near Yakutat Alaska taken on July 2 2024.

Photographer: Jenna Domitrovich South Harrison road
Calliope Hummingbird in the Spokane Valley on 7/14/24

Photographer: Terry Sanborn
Calliope Hummingbird in the Spokane Valley on 7/11/24

Photographer: Tami Sanborn
Juvenile Red-Tailed Hawk checking me out earlier this morning.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Juvenile Red-Tailed Hawk stopped by for a visit this morning while I was watering flowers in my front yard.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Red Shafted Northern Flicker woodpecker perched in the maple tree.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Immature Bald Eagle in the shade, Pend Oreille River, Cusick, WA, July 12th

Photographer: Nia Patton
Cormorant break time, Pend Oreille River, Cusick, WA, July 12th

Photographer: Nia Patton
Mama Quail with babies on our back deck /// late June

Photographer: Jerry R O L W E S
Everyone likes to play in the water when it's this hot. This Canadian goose was doing just that at Riverside State Park this second week of July.

Photographer: Melaine Williams
A beautiful Cedar Waxwing sings for me on Turnbull wildlife refuge on a cool morning before the heat of the day starts. 7 12 2024.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.
A blue Heron resting in the heat, Pend Oreille River, July 10th

Photographer: Nia Patton
A caterpillar making it's way in thistle blooms on a Pend Oreille River bank, July 10th

Photographer: Nia Patton
Dragonfly formation. Manito Park July 8 2024

Photographer: Ron Large
Osprey eyeball to eyeball Japanese Garden Manito Park July 7 2024

Photographer: Ron Large
Family outing on the 4th of July. Spokane River near seven mile 7/4/24

Photographer: Mark Hendrickson
Turtle piggyback. Manito Park July 3 2024

Photographer: Ron Large
Swallowtail butterfly

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner