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Gander in flight
Canada geese fly near Kirby Billingsley Hydro Park on Thursday morning.
Cool climb
Ice climber Bill Wicheta of Wenatchee works his way up the 50-foot-tall Trotsky’s Folly ice flow on the cliff walls east of Highway 155 along Banks Lake. Mark Shipman of Wenatchee is above.
Silver in the hills
The sun glistens off snow and ice covered fields on Badger Mountain.
Eye for dinner
A bird of prey soars over dryland wheat fields, looking for a quick bite, along Highway 2 between Douglas and Coulee City.
Frosty foraging
Deer forage on a hillside south of Saddle Rock on Monday morning.
Duck diver
Water ripples out from a common goldeneye after it surfaces from a dive in the Columbia River near Walla Walla Point Park, Thursday. It was diving down around ice chunks floating down river while feeding.
Last shot before school
By Mike Bonnicksen World staff writer
Annual bird count under way
CHELAN — The annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count is underway. Bird counters around Chelan will typically find about 70 species of birds this time of year.
The more the mayor-ier?
Outgoing Mayor Dennis Johnson got pulled into the role of photographer after Frank Kuntz was sworn in as Wenatchee’s new mayor Wednesday at City Hall. Kuntz and his family smiled while Johnson clicked.
Damp outlook
Rain drops drip down the head of “Perfect on Petra,” an Art on the Avenues sculpture near the intersection of First Street and Wenatchee Avenue in Wenatchee.