{"id":35242,"date":"2016-02-06T05:38:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T12:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=35242"},"modified":"2025-10-03T13:38:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T18:38:03","slug":"a-juvenile-northern-harrier-in-a-fog-at-farmington-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2016\/02\/06\/a-juvenile-northern-harrier-in-a-fog-at-farmington-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Juvenile Northern Harrier In A Fog At Farmington Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AA very foggy morning at Farmington Bay WMA – HTC One M8 cell phone pic
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When I left home yesterday morning to head to Farmington Bay WMA<\/span><\/a> there were mostly blue skies overhead and the sun was shining but when I got to Farmington Bay it was completely socked in with fog.<\/p>\n

At times I couldn’t see any further than 50 to 75 feet from the road because the fog was so dense.<\/p>\n

The image above was taken facing east at Unit 1 and beyond the curtain of fog I know that there were eagles, gulls and waterfowl out on the ice but I sure couldn’t see them.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t even see the Wasatch Mountains.<\/p>\n

\"JuvenileJuvenile Northern Harrier in a fog – Nikon D810, f6.3, 1\/4000, ISO 640, +1.7 EV, Nikon 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light, not baited
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I did spot a juvenile Northern Harrier in the fog resting on a clump of vegetation in the snow covered field on the east side of the road and took a few images of it.<\/p>\n

I thought I would just delete the images but after I looked at them on my computer monitor I decided I liked a few of them because of the mood the fog gave the photos.<\/p>\n

The fog was fairly thick in the distance between the bird and myself but not so thick that I couldn’t focus on it.<\/p>\n

The birds that stay in the Great Salt Lake ecosystem during the winter are tough, they have to be to survive the harsh conditions.<\/p>\n

\"FarmingtonFarmington Bay WMA as the fog clears out – HTC One M8 cell phone pic<\/span><\/p>\n

Before leaving Farmington Bay at around 11 am the fog had started to lift and I could see the Wasatch Mountain Range, the blue sky and snow covered marshes of the refuge.<\/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 did spot a juvenile Northern Harrier in the fog resting on a clump of vegetation in the snow covered field on the east side of the road and took a few images of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":159100,"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":[27,1022,697,348,26],"tags":[2663,2069,765,4101,9106,1124,4175,3984,3952,2783,3164,4169,4067,4071,848,4006,4104,153,4156,4050,4093,5483,1164,4176,373],"class_list":["post-35242","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-birds-of-prey","tag-blue-sky","tag-circus-hudsonius","tag-clouds","tag-dense","tag-field","tag-fog","tag-foggy","tag-great-salt-lake-ecosystem","tag-harrier","tag-harriers","tag-hawks","tag-immature","tag-juvenile","tag-mood","tag-northern-harrier","tag-perched","tag-raptors","tag-resting","tag-snow","tag-snow-covered","tag-tough","tag-wasatch-mountain-range","tag-wasatch-mountains","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