{"id":17811,"date":"2014-12-16T17:10:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T00:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=17811"},"modified":"2025-10-03T08:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T13:12:09","slug":"eye-level-northern-harrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2014\/12\/16\/eye-level-northern-harrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye Level Northern Harrier"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love to photograph birds in flight and it doesn’t matter which species it is. But I do thoroughly enjoy photographing raptors like this Northern Harrier as they fly by.<\/p>\n

\"EyeEye level Northern Harrier – Nikon D810, f6.3, 1\/1600, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light, not baited
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Two days ago I was able to photograph at Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area for a few hours in the morning.<\/p>\n

It has been a challenge lately to find birds close enough to photograph, especially raptors there.<\/p>\n

Even though we have had some snow it didn’t stick around and raptor photography gets better at Farmington Bay WMA after the snow starts to build up on the ground.<\/p>\n

Harriers often have their eyes on the ground as they fly by so I felt fortunate that this one looked up when it did. This harrier sure appears very aerodynamic in this pose.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to view more of my Northern Harrier photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love to photograph birds in flight and it doesn’t matter which species it is. But I do thoroughly enjoy photographing raptors like this Northern Harrier as they fly by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":159032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,697,348,26],"tags":[9099,2663,765,7934,4070,4052,4122,2783,3164,4169,4359,4067,4071,767,4006,4063,4050,373],"class_list":["post-17811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-farmington-bay-wma","category-northern-harriers","category-utah","tag-aerodynamic","tag-birds-of-prey","tag-circus-hudsonius","tag-eye-level","tag-female","tag-flight","tag-flying","tag-harrier","tag-harriers","tag-hawks","tag-hen","tag-immature","tag-juvenile","tag-marsh-hawk","tag-northern-harrier","tag-raptor","tag-snow","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t