Swan Rangers looked high and low for wildflowers and wildlife during their outings this past week!

Scroll down to see the rest of their photos and details.

In our lead photo, Pam Willison captures a still morning lake and clouds on the move!

Keith Hammer captures the same lake later in the day and . . .

. . . two too seldom seen Whitebark pine cones!

Lynne Smith again shows us abundant wildflowers still blooming at higher elevations and . . .

. . . a Columbian ground squirrel enjoying wildflower seeds!

Keith Hammer found a Marmot grazing on Lichens while . . .

. . . Pat Jaquith found this Chipmunk enjoying a mushroom on a lower elevation fence post!

Pam Willison found this half of a Lewis woodpecker family on a fence post, with the other half a little further from the porta-potty!

Pam also found some high-elevation Ledge stonecrop/Roseroot while . . .

. . . Pat Jaquith spied two Whitetail bucks in a field and . . .

. . . Ruth Quist captured the beauty of rain on grass!

Skip Via found a Hunts bumblebee on a Blazing star and . . .

. . . Keith Hammer watched people hike right by within four feet of this Grouse without noticing it or its clever camouflage!

Chris Gotschalk gives us a nice view along the Swan Crest while . . .

. . . in our parting shot, Keith Hammer shows us a wild white Dragon flying through Glacier National Park!

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!