Swan Rangers found more things to crow about during their outings this past week!

Scroll down for the rest of their photos and details!

In our lead photo, Lynn Smith shows us a Pine Grosbeak in a fir tree loaded with cones!

Norma Linsky found some more wet weather to hike in and shares this photo and . . .

. . . one of Pinedrops!

Skip Via photographed this California Tortoisshell in Montana while . . .

. . . Lynn Smith found a bunch of Northern Blue Butterflies!

Lynn also saw some Elephant's Head covered in morning dew while . . .

. . . Pat Jaquith found two colors of Wild Bergamot . . .

. . . a curious Coyote and . . .

. . . an adult Red-naped Sapsucker feeding a juvenile!

Ruth Quist found a juvenile Great Horned Owl!

Keith Hammer went out to look for Northern Lights and found a waning moon about to rise!

Keith also found that clouds dirtied by wildfire smoke make for an interesting sunset in the Flathead Valley while . . .

. . . in our parting shot, Ruth Quist found a nice sunset in the Mission Valley too!

If you have interesting photos of your outings, send them along with a description to keith@swanview.org and we'll try to work them into these weekly reports!