Swan Rangers enjoyed the atmosphere, critters and other phenomena during their outings this past week!

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

In our lead photo, Keith Hammer shows us the first major snow on the Swan Crest this season.

Chris Gotschalk provides us a before-the-snow shot of a small lake along the Swan Crest.

Ruth Quist shows us some Fall colors in the Mission Valley while . . .

. . . Debra Schweitzer shows us some in Vermont!

Pam Willison sent us a photo of her hike along the coast of Portugal and . . .

. . . a look at the full moon there while . . .

. . . Skip Via saw the full moon in Arizona!

In our critter department, Ruth Quist saw a Great blue heron and . . .

. . . a pair of Swans!

Pat Jaquith saw a Pygmy owl in a Larch tree . . .

. . . a young male Red-winged blackbird and . . .

. . . a family of Red crossbills; male, female and juvenile!

In our parting shot, Dee Blank shows us a sunset lighting up lenticular clouds!

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!