This old Locust is a real survivor…it’s scars are evidence that not every vehicle successfully navigated the 90 degree turn on the gravel road it overlooks…
#ThickTrunkTuesday #Trees #Backroads #RuralScenes #Rural
#Photography #NaturePhotography
#EasternWashington

American White Pelican soaring over the Columbia River while I shoot from a highway turnout high above the water…. #EasternWashington #PNW
#BirdoftheDay #Airborne #Pelicans #BirdsInFlight #Birds #WaterBirds
#BirdPhotography #BirdsofBlueSky
#WestCoastPhotography #Birding

Landscapes seen when out birding in southwestern Yakima Valley #EasternWashington this week…
#Scapes #Landscapes #RuralScenes
#Backroads #Rural #Clouds

Some Palouse Semi-abstraction, warm soft light courtesy of the new normal summer smoke
#landscapephotography #palouse #inlandnorthwest #easternwashington

Friend or foe? Looks like this Osprey is trying to figure that out as I shoot from my pickup truck…McNary National Wildlife Refuge #EasternWashington
#BirdoftheDay #BirdStare #Birds
#BirdPhotography #BirdsofBlueSky
#WestCoastPhotography #Birding
#BirdWatching #BirdsoftheWorld

Today's "From the Files" 09-23-26:

Plowed. The Palouse. Colfax, WA. 2022 #davidgardnerphotography #lightight #easternwashington #palouse #wheat #plowed #agriculture #abstract #farm #washington #wa #landscape

Steller’s Jay…catches seeds & nuts in the ground &tree bark using incredible spacial memory to find it again during winter… #EasternWashington #PNW
#BirdoftheDay #Corvids #Jays #Birds
#BirdPhotography #BirdWatching
#WestCoastPhotography #BirdLife
#NaturePhotography #BirdsofBlueSky

Osprey, Red-tailed Hawk, American Kestrel and Bald Eagle: all are raptors or birds of prey, but Osprey are the only members of the unique Pandionidae family…
#BirdoftheDay #Raptors #Hawks
#Falcons #Eagles #BirdsofPrey
#BirdPhotography #BirdsofBlueSky
#BirdsoftheWorld #BirdWatching
#EasternWashington

Range cattle coming down from summer range in Cascade foothills waiting to be moved to better feed in their winter pasture on the Yakima Valley floor… #EasternWashington
#MammalMonday #Cows #Rural
#WestCoastPhotography #Scapes
#LandscapePhotography #Animals
#RuralScenes

Wild Turkey hen…ground feeders spending nearly all their life walking and scratching the ground for seeds and insects… #EasternWashington
#Birdoftheday #FallBirds #PNW
#AutumnBirds #BirdWatching #Fall
#BirdPhotography #BirdsofBlueSky
#WestCoastPhotography #Autumn

Red-tailed Hawk, late afternoon September 17, 2026, Yakima Valley, #EasternWashington #PNW
#BirdoftheDay #LightAndShadow
#Raptors #Hawks #BirdWatching
#BirdsoftheWorld #BirdsofBlueSky
#WestCoastPhotography #BirdLife

Green stuff—10 foot tall Field Corn, regrowth in summer 2026 wildfire burn area, Granny Smith apples, very old Pear Trees growing wild at Fort Simcoe State Park… #EasternWashington
#ColorADay #GreenSat #Fruit #PNW
#NaturePhotography #Nature
#RuralScenes #Farming #Scapes
#WestCoastPhotography

Cedar Waxwing, one of the few North American birds that can live on an exclusive diet of berries for long periods of time…very high pitched call… #EasternWashington #PNW
#BirdoftheDay #Elegant #Birds
#BirdPhotography #Nature #BirdsoftheWorld #BirdsofBlueSky
#BirdWatching #Photography

An American Crow having a terrible time perching on a power line on a very windy day in the Yakima Valley #EasternWashington #PNW #Birds
#BirdoftheDay #Scruffy #Crows
#BirdPhotography #BirdsofBlueSky
#WestCoastPhotography #Corvids

A Fritillary Butterfly, one of many, on a nectar-rich Rabbitbrush bloom in mid-September on an irrigation canal bank… #YakimaValley
#EasternWashington #FlyDay #PNW
#Butterflies #Insects #Closeup
#WestCoastPhotography #Weed #Photography #Plants #Macro

Exterior and interior lobby photos of the 1931 historic art deco Larson Building in downtown Yakima, #EasternWashington #Design
#UrbanGaze #Architecture #Scapes
#Buildings #ArtDeco #Interiors
#WestCoastPhotography #PNW
#ArchitecturalPhotography

Walking track in a park is a great place for different healthy activities midday in a small #EasternWashington town…
#HumansofBlueSky #Monochrome
#BlackAndWhitePhotography #BnW
#WestCoastPhotography #People
#Photography #Mono #Parks

Things seen when out birding: small band of wild horses on the grounds of Fort Simcoe, wild mushroom cluster, mixed-breed sheep flock, herd of domestic American Bison…
#EasternWashington #photography
#horses #Bison #Sheep #Mushrooms
#WestCoastPhotography #Mammals
#Nature #NaturePhotography #PNW

A raptor in silhouette…stocky body and heavy bill point to it being a Red-tailed Hawk, very common in the Yakima Valley, #EasternWashington
#BirdoftheDay #Silhouette #Birds
#Raptors #BirdPhotography #PNW
#NaturePhotography #BirdWatching
#Birding #WildLifePhotography