{"id":35085,"date":"2016-01-23T05:30:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T12:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=35085"},"modified":"2025-10-03T10:55:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:55:46","slug":"northern-harrier-in-flight-over-farmington-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2016\/01\/23\/northern-harrier-in-flight-over-farmington-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Harrier in Flight over Farmington Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PhotoPano of a female Northern Harrier in flight – Nikon D810, f7.1, 1\/1250, ISO 500, +1.0 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light, not baited
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

I spent a little bit of time yesterday morning photographing a few birds including this Northern Harrier in flight over Farmington Bay WMA<\/span><\/a>. This was the only harrier that flew in close enough to get quality images of as she flew past me at the boat ramp. There is still snow on the ground but I don’t think the harriers are having trouble finding food because there are quite a few patches of open ground where they can see their prey easily.<\/p>\n

I’m always happy to be able to take images of Northern Harriers in flight.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

I spent a little bit of time yesterday morning photographing a few birds including this Northern Harrier in flight over Farmington Bay WMA. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":159096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,1022,697,348,26],"tags":[4004,2663,765,4070,4052,4122,2783,3164,4169,2386,4359,4006,9097,153,4018,4050],"class_list":["post-35085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-davis-county-utah","category-farmington-bay-wma","category-northern-harriers","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-birds-of-prey","tag-circus-hudsonius","tag-female","tag-flight","tag-flying","tag-harrier","tag-harriers","tag-hawks","tag-hawks-of-utah","tag-hen","tag-northern-harrier","tag-open-ground","tag-raptors","tag-sky","tag-snow"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/northern-harrier-flight-mia-mcpherson-6885.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-97T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11765,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/12\/11\/female-northern-harrier-in-flight-at-farmington-bay-waterfowl-management-area\/","url_meta":{"origin":35085,"position":0},"title":"Female Northern Harrier in flight at Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"December 11, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"While I was photographing some ducks and grebes yesterday I spotted this female Northern Harrier in flight coming in from the south and when she flew over the water I was able to get a series of images of her against the sky.","rel":"","context":"In "Birds"","block_context":{"text":"Birds","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/category\/avian\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Female Northern Harrier in flight over a creek, Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/northern-harrier-mia-mcpherson-7037.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/northern-harrier-mia-mcpherson-7037.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/northern-harrier-mia-mcpherson-7037.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/northern-harrier-mia-mcpherson-7037.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":17811,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2014\/12\/16\/eye-level-northern-harrier\/","url_meta":{"origin":35085,"position":1},"title":"Eye Level Northern Harrier","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"December 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I love to photograph birds in flight and it doesn't matter which species it is. 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