1\/2000, f\/9?, ISO 640, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\nSix days ago I got a series of photos of this Northern Harrier hunting voles at Farmington Bay WMA. I posted two of those photos recently but this one is new to my blog.<\/p>\n
Harriers typically hunt low to the ground while flying very slow, often with their long yellow legs hanging straight down. To me their slow flight speed and body posture gives the illusion that they’re somehow, almost magically, hanging in midair.<\/p>\n
While I was processing this image very early this morning I realized that the bare ground at the top of this image is some of the last of it I’ll see, possibly for weeks.<\/p>\n
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This is what it looked like out my back door at 4:15 this morning. It began to snow at 5:40 last evening – the beginning of what our weatherpersons often euphemistically refer to as a “snow event”. Soon after I took this photo I measured nearly 13″ of snow out there and the National Weather Service is predicting that by tonight we’ll have up to 16″ of new white stuff in the valleys and 20″ on the benches. At the rate it’s snowing now I’ll bet we get more.<\/p>\n
I had a physical therapy appointment for 7:00 this morning that I cancelled yesterday in anticipation of this storm. Sometimes, on rare occasions, I actually think ahead and make the right decision.<\/p>\n
Our mountains, that already have record snowpack, are predicted to get 2-3′ more snow before this event is over. We can only hope that our water managers and seriously addled politicians will allow a large portion of that water to reach Great Salt Lake this spring and early summer.<\/p>\n
I have far more confidence in our water managers than I do in our politicians but in many ways it’s the politicians that really call the shots.<\/p>\n
Ron<\/p>\n
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