Your Outdoor Photos: April 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., April 5, 2024

Photos in This Album

Osprey takes off from a perch. This female osprey was happy after eating a fish and was perched for roughly 5 hours before finally taking off! Fernan Lake, April 28.

Photographer: Mark Stoeser
Yellow-headed blackbird in flight Saltese Flats, late April

Photographer: Mark Stoeser
Yellow headed blackbird singing his heart out! Saltese Flats, late April.

Photographer: Mark Stoeser
Blue Heron returning with nesting material. Fernan Lake 4/23/24

Photographer: Mark Hendrickson
Colony of Great Blue Heron nesting in tree at Fernan Lake. Taken 4/23/24

Photographer: Mark Hendrickson
Male Wood duck sitting low in a bit of a wind on the Pend Oreille River, April 18th 2024

Photographer: Nia Patton
Milfoil excavator traveling up the Pend Oreille River, April 12th, 2024

Photographer: Nia Patton
Red-tailed Hawk and snake at Saltese Wetlands on 4/20/24

Photographer: Terry Sanborn
Red-tailed Hawk at Saltese Wetlands on 4/20/24

Photographer: Tami Sanborn
American Coot at Saltese Wetlands on 4/20/24

Photographer: Tami Sanborn
Romance has returned the sagebrush country as this sage Thrasher jumps to the top of a sagebrush plant looking for a mate singing it's song that goes on and on and on a joy to hear. Taken west of Davenport W.A. April 20 2024.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.
American White Pelican. Taken in North Idaho 4/15/24

Photographer: Mark Hendrickson
Harrier Hawk taken at Turnbull Wildlife Refuge 4/17/24 (Mark Hendrickson)

Photographer: Mark Hendrickson
Flying fish having a bad day. Fernan Lake April 12.

Photographer: Mark Stoeser
Osprey sitting in the water with a fish before it takes off again. Fernan Lake April 12.

Photographer: Mark Stoeser
Osprey catching a rainbow trout from Fernan Lake. April 12.

Photographer: Mark Stoeser
Red-winged Blackbird at Saltese Wetlands on 4/15/2024

Photographer: Terry Sanborn
Starling at Saltese Wetlands on 4/15/2024

Photographer: Tami Sanborn
A great Blue Heron spreads it's huge slate blue wings as it lifts off for flight their wing span is some 72 inches. Taken April 13 at the Confluence of the Spokane and Little Spokane rivers on a very beautiful spring day.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.
I always love walking in Falls Park in Post Falls this time of the year. There are usually a lot of baby Canadian Geese wandering around. This 2nd week in April there was only this one little guy and his parents

Photographer: Melaine Williams
Mountain Chickadee in the Spokane Valley on April 6th.

Photographer: Terry Sanborn
Clouds around the partial eclipse, Usk, WA, 4-8-24

Photographer: Nia Patton
April 1st, 2024, female Hooded Merganser with great morning hair, Pend Oreille River

Photographer: Nia Patton
At 30 acer lake Turnbull wildlife refuge a female Northern Harrier descends into the reeds to gather material for her nest she is brown and white in color while the male is Gray and white they nest out their every spring.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.
What a sight in nature to see as these thousands of Snow Geese take to the air west of Othello W.A.on Saturday April 6 2024 so glad to have had my camera with me to catch it.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.