{"id":17982,"date":"2013-08-31T04:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=17982"},"modified":"2013-08-30T18:28:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T00:28:03","slug":"male-harrier-cruising-the-causeway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/31\/male-harrier-cruising-the-causeway\/","title":{"rendered":"Male Harrier Cruising The Causeway"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a strong affinity for Northern Harriers ( a little secret that’s difficult to conceal, given the vanity plates on my pickup and the graphic at the top of my blog).\u00a0 And though I love to photograph either sex there’s just something about the adult\u00a0males that has a special appeal for me.\u00a0 Part of that attraction is probably the relative rarity of the adult male colors\u00a0since the juveniles of both sexes resemble that of the female.<\/p>\n

The males are called the “gray ghost” for good reason.<\/p>\n

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\u00a01\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 500, 500 f\/4, canvas added for composition<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

This isn’t a take-off shot – the\u00a0adult male was cruising the Antelope Island causeway as it hunted, with the Great Salt Lake in the upper background and mud flats below.\u00a0 The hawk was slightly past me but I think the look back he gave me more than made up for it.<\/p>\n

Typically harriers wouldn’t fly this close to a vehicle (I was shooting from my pickup) but the narrowness of the causeway and road, with water on each side, eventually allows a few of these birds to lose some of their wariness of vehicles as they hunt – mostly for voles.<\/p>\n

After all, there’s\u00a0not many voles out there in the water.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a strong affinity for Northern Harriers ( a little secret that’s difficult to conceal, given the vanity plates on my pickup). And though I love to photograph either sex there’s just something about the adult males that has a special appeal for me. Part of that attraction is probably the relative rarity of the adult male colors since the juvenile colors of both sexes resemble that of the female.<\/p>\n

The males are called the “gray ghost” for good reason.<\/p>\n

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