Things seen out birding Yakima Valley:
Apple orchard trellis support system & wind machine frost protection, hamburger on the hoof, death of fruit orchard, gravel pit pond being mined…
#rural #ruralscenes #trees, #farming #PNW #WestCoastPhotography #scapes
#photography #Washingtonstate #photo
Things seen while birding Yakima Valley: Rattlesnake Ridge slide moving about an inch a week…Cherry orchard…common area parking lot landscaping…arboretum squirrel…
#WestCoastphotography #squirrels
#Washingtonisbeautiful #trees #PNW
#BlueSkyMonday #ruralscenes #rural
#naturephotography #photography
Mt. Adams, Pahto in Yakama language meaning “standing high”…majestic from the end of our rural driveway in the Yakima Valley…she may get new snow this week…
#mountainMonday #springscape #PNW
#mountains #CascadeMountains #rural
#Washingtonstate #ruralscenes #photo
#WestCoastPhotography #photoaday
Things seen when birding on the Yakama Nation’s Reservation: Toppenish Creek, Toppenish Ridge runs parallel to the creek, yeah, I get the message and flowering tree at auto parts store in Toppenish…
#landscape #scapes #rural #ruralscenes
#WestCoastPhotography #nature
#Washingtonstate #photography
Mt. Adams looking west from the east access road to Toppenish National Wildlife Refuge 1pm 3/23/26…
#mountainMonday #CascadeMountains
#WestCoastPhotography #mountains
#rural #landscape #ruralscenes #scape
Mt. Adams in background…hop yard in mid ground…introverted (?) Bison cow dining away from the herd…Yakama Nation’s Reservation…
#monoMonday #monochrome #bnw
#Washingtonstate #photography
#blackandwhitephotography #PNW
#ruralscenes #landscape #rural
#bison #WestCoastPhotography
#cascademountains
A few warm days and these snowy signs of winter are now gone from the southwest side of the Yakama Nation’s Reservation…drought conditions continue
#washingtonstate #photography #PNW
#washingtonisbeautiful #ruralscenes
#rural #WestCoastPhotography #nature
#backroads #landscape #scapes #snow
A real sign of Spring is when farm/garden/animal feed stores bring in stock tanks equipped with heat lamps, feeders, water sources and fill them with baby chicks for sale…Union Gap, WA
#chickens #poultry #farming #rural #birds
#ruralscenes #farmlife #photography
#smallbirdSaturday #BirdsoftheWorld
“The Lonely Gate”
A gateway to nowhere—and everywhere.
Link 👉 www.kevinalanmau.art/landscapes
#FineArtPhotography #FarmPhotography #RuralScenes #RusticCharm #WashingtonPhotography #WhidbeyIsland #PacificNorthwestPhotography #LandscapeArt #PhotographersEye #MinimalLandscape #FarmGate #RuralMystery
Seen when out birding…beaver dam in an irrigation canal that has water during the winter…Wapato Irrigation crew’ll destroy it in a month when they clean the system…Mt. Adams in the distance…
#waterWednesday #Washingtonstate
#WestCoastPhotography #nature #rural
#ruralscenes #backroads #scapes #water
Birding back roads 2/27/2026 on the Yakima Nation’s Reservation watching the change of seasons taking place…very green field is winter wheat…Mt. Adams in background…
#greenSat #rural #farming #backroads
#landscape #ruralscenes #nature
#WestCoastPhotography #photography
#mountains #naturephotography
Things seen while out birding in the Yakima Valley, eastern Washington state: old, rusty farm junk, American Robin nest and nature’s fallen debris…
#photography #naturephotography
#WestCoastPhotography #rural #PNW
#nature #ruralscenes
7am views to the east and west as the sun lit up the sky in my part of the Yakima Valley…it was a chilly 24 degrees…
#sunrise #clouds #mountains #trees
#silhouette #ruralscenes #landscape
#scapes #rural #photography #PNW #WestCoastPhotography #nature
#naturephotography
Seen when birding: long haul trucking south from the Yakima Valley on 97…young Dorber sheep, a fast growing meat producer…hair coats that are shed not sheared…
#WestCoastPhotography #sheep #rural
#farming #landscape #photography #mammals #naturephotography
#ruralscenes #photography
Looking southwest about 3:30pm yesterday (1/28/2026) near Union Gap, Washington state…
#clouds #sky #rural #ruralscenes #silhouette #photography #PNW
#WestCoastPhotography
At least a half ton of Black Angus beef relaxing in filtered winter sun on the Yakima Reservation, Washington…
#monoMonday #monochrome #rural
#cattle #blackandwhitephotography
#WestCoastPhotography #photography
#ruralscenes #backroads
Things seen while birding Yakima Valley, WA—Maple leaf pile untouched by snow, abandoned ranch buildings, snow covered upper valley ridge, Toppenish Creek in lower valley…
#ruralscenes #rural #landscape #WestCoastPhotography #photography
Red-tailed Hawk tried to evade my camera flying from power pole to another, then under a small bridge, up into a snag…just idled along in my truck…finally got my photo…
#birds #hawks #raptors #ornithology
#BirdsoftheWorld #birdphotography #WestCoastPhotography #photography
#ruralscenes #backroads
Things seen on a gray day when birding on the Yakama Indian Reservation—Toppenish Creek, lots of beef cattle, Toppenish Ridge runs parallel to the creek on the south side of the valley, a vacant hawk nest I’ll be watching…
#rural #ruralscenes #cattle #nests
#WestCoastPhotography #photography
Things seen when out birding the Yakima Valley…coyote crossing an open field…crew opening a section of new road…half a ton of beef…old farm stuff rusting…
#photography #rural #nature #humans
#WestCoastPhotography #ruralscenes
#wildlifephotography #backroads
An old prairie barn leaning into the trees, weathered but still standing against open sky and long grass.
#Prairie #RuralDecay #AbandonedBarn #PrairieLife #FarmHistory #Weathered #BlackAndWhitePhotography #CanadianLandscape #RuralScenes #OpenSkies #EastCoastKin
Some of the very pregnant Black Angus ladies got together at the water tanks for a New Year’s Eve drink…eastern Washington state…
#cows #rural #farming #ruralscenes
#WestCoastPhotography #photography
#mammals #farmlife
12/30/2025…still waters of Toppenish Creek at the east access to Toppenish National Wildlife Refuge…photographing geese in particular and scenery that moves me…
#waterWednesday #reflection #water
#naturephotography #photography
#WestCoastPhotography #scapes
#landscape #rural #ruralscenes
Every time I visit this small Bison herd here in the Yakima Valley the lyrics of Roger Miller’s silly song “You Can’t Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd” come to mind…that’s a hop yard behind them…
#stunday #mammals #bison #rural #farming #photography #ruralscenes #WestCoastPhotography
Some things I see when out birding—a seriously old tree and a few of the old car bodies that are part of a collection…near White Swan, WA…
#thicktrunkTuesday #trees #vehicles
#rural #WestCoastPhotography #PNW
#photography #ruralscenes
Afternoon sun on the flooding Yakima River near Granger, Washington, December 2025…
#WestCoastPhotography #landscape
#rivers #photography #ruralscenes
#water #nature #stunday #clouds
#photograhersofBlueSky #PNW
Lots of cows in the neighborhood…small Brahman herd and I’m guessing 50+ very pregnant Black Angus grazing field corn stubble…Yakima County, WA
#cows #rural #farming #backroads
#landscape #mammals #photography
#WestCoastPhotography #farmlife
#ruralscenes #scapes
12/11/2025 Yakima River minor flood waters from rain and mountain snow melt along I-82, Yakima, WA…result of Atmospheric Rivers currently causing historic floods in western Washington state…
#WestCoastPhotography #water
#ruralscenes #landscape #photography
#naturephotography #scapes #rural
