{"id":68611,"date":"2019-01-27T05:47:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T12:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=68611"},"modified":"2019-01-27T05:47:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T12:47:13","slug":"male-northern-harrier-in-flight-against-a-favorite-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/27\/male-northern-harrier-in-flight-against-a-favorite-background\/","title":{"rendered":"Male Northern Harrier In Flight Against A Favorite Background"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve mentioned before how much I like backgrounds like this one. Here’s another example.<\/p>\n

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1\/3200, f\/7.1, ISO 400, Canon 7D,\u00a0Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

This is a photo from my archives I’ve never posted before, taken on December 4, 2009 at Farmington Bay WMA. This male Northern Harrier, the fabled “Gray Ghost”, was hunting the edges of a phragmites stand as they so often do at Farmington.<\/p>\n

I love masses of these relatively dark and fluffy phragmites seed plumes in the backgrounds of my photos, especially photos of harriers and Barn Owls in flight. Here they anchor the hawk in the frame as he flies mostly above them and their color complements some of his ventral plumage colors and even those of his feet. A week ago I published a photo of a male harrier in flight<\/a> with the much lighter vertical stems of phragmites in the background but frankly I like these darker plumes much better than those lighter colored, tightly packed and relatively unattractive vertical stems.<\/p>\n

But then I’m attracted to harriers no matter their context. I never saw them growing up on the Montana farm (that I remember) so my first real introduction to the “Marsh Hawk” was at Bear River MBR in 1969 while I was taking an ornithology class during my senior year in college.<\/p>\n

It’s been a 50 year love affair and I’m still hooked.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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I’ve mentioned before how much I like backgrounds like this one. Here’s another example.<\/p>\n

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