Log raft of wildflowers in the Swan River by Chris Gotschalk.
Swan Rangers reported on outings that welcomed Summer and Winter Solstices in both hemispheres during the week ending Saturday, June 26, 2021!
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Like the wildflowers shown in our lead photo by Chris Gotschalk . . .
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. . . these Great Blue herons photographed by Pat Jaquith appear to prefer low elevation nesting too!
Pat also photographed these Red-necked grebes with their hitch-hiking young . . .
. . . a Marsh wren practicing "the splits" in the cattails . . .
. . . and some Black henbane!
Pam Willison found this secretive Warbling vireo on its nest while . . .
. . . Skip Via caught these fledgling Great Horned owls off the nest!
Keith Hammer hiked where its moist and shady to find Pinedrop shoots . . .
. . . emerging Pinesap . . .
. . . and Round-leaved Rein orchid.
Philippa Goninan shows us a bit of Winter in Australia with these photos of her hike . . .
. . . along the Larapinta Trail!
If you have interesting photos of your outings, send them along with a description to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and we'll try to work them into these weekly reports!