Swan Rangers saw lots of flowers, birds and mushrooms during their outings this past week!

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Lynn Smith starts us off with photos of Spotted Saxifrage and . . .

. . . Bishop's Cap while . . .

. . . Ruth Quist shows us some Yellow Iris that, while beautiful are also European invasives, and . . .

. . . Pat Jaquith shows us a well camouflaged Crab Spider eating a bee on an Blanket Flower!

Evelina Groszewski shows us a Lewis's Woodpecker . . .

. . . a Northern Waterthrush and . . .

. . . Trumpeter Swans with cygnets!

Ruth Quist was stared doown by a Short-eared Owl while . . .

. . . Keith Hammer got the stink-eye from a juvenile Great Horned Owl and . . .

. . . Norma Linsky got the once-over from a Stellar's Jay!

Debra Schweitzer found some mushrooms that look like a sloppy stack of pancakes while . . .

. . . Keith Hammer found a Wood Ear Mushroom and some . . .

. . . big Oyster Mushrooms on a dead Aspen tree!

Chris Gotschalk hiked high on the Swan Crest to find some snow to test his new hiking boots and returned with three ticks for his effort!

In our parting shot, Mary Via shows us a “circumhorizontal arc” formed when the sun is refracted by ice crystals in the upper atmosphere!

HAPPY SUMMER SOLSTICE!

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!