Spring Beauty by Pat Jaquith
Swan Rangers saw sprouts, buds and blossoms during their outings this past week!
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In our lead photo, Pat Jaquith sets the tone with a Spring Beauty!
Pam Willison found a Bee hard at work on a Crocus flower!
Keith Hammer celebrates Spring with this photo of Skunk cabbage, which use energy from their roots/rhizomes to boost temperatures in the companion purple flowering spathe to 70 degrees F in below-freezing air temps! Click here and scroll down for more details!
Keith also found some Oregon grape beginning to flower . . .
. . . swelling Cottonwood leaf buds . . .
. . . and leaves beginning to emerge . . .
. . . from shrubs and bushes!
Pat Jaquith found a Williamson's sapsucker hard at work while . . .
. . . Keith Hammer found where something had been busy as a Beaver on this 8" diameter Birch!
Keith also found a Conk helping this smaller Birch decay and . . .
. . . elk feeding on hay field green-up following a snow squall!
In our parting shot of a snow squall, Norma Linsky shows us what appears to be a UFO emerging from a blue "sucker hole" in the clouds!
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