Swan Rangers visited lands both wet and dry during their outings this past week!

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

In our lead photos, Keith Hammer shows us a wetland perched next to a dry hillside and . . .

. . . a ground-water fed fen!

Marilyn Wood found some Lady's Slippers and . . .

. . . some Spotted Coralroot, while . . .

. . . Pat Jaquith came across a yellow Spotted Coralroot!

Debra Schweitzer found a nice combination of Lupine and Bear Grass while . . .

. . . Lynn Smith found some shorter, wind-swept Lupine and . . .

. . . a Common Checkered-Skipper!

Pam Willison provides us close-ups of Thimbleberry and . . .

. . . Mariposa Lily!

Chris Gotschalk found some wonderful Penstemon while . . .

. . . Ruth Quist stumbled upon a Killdeer with camouflaged eggs but not known to hide their nests!

Evelina Groszewski caught this Northern Flicker peeking out of its nest hole and . . .

. . . also spied a juvenile Dark-eyed Junco!

Norma Linsky invited this bear to walk a mile in her shoes but instead . . .

. . . ran into a baby Mountain Sheep while . . .

Keith Hammer saw some baby Mountain Goats!

Keith Hammer came across sign of Grizzly Bear digging up Biscuitroot, not . . .

. . . to be confused with the Bitterroot Ruth Quist shows us here!

Keith Hammer managed this photo of a Swainson's Thrush while . . .

. . . in our parting shot, Skip Via shows us a colorful Lazuli Bunting!

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!