{"id":83631,"date":"2020-04-05T05:49:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T11:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=83631"},"modified":"2020-04-05T06:36:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T12:36:11","slug":"sidelit-and-unusually-tame-northern-harrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/05\/sidelit-and-unusually-tame-northern-harrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidelit And Unusually Tame Northern Harrier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Without question this is the “tamest” Northern Harrier I’ve ever photographed and I’ve had thousands of them in my viewfinder over the years.<\/p>\n

I don’t post perched harriers often. They’re always shy but in my experience they’re even more difficult to get close to while perched than they are in flight. As a result I have far more harrier flight shots than I do photos of them perched.<\/p>\n

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1\/2500, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

But this first spring male Northern Harrier from four years ago was a notable exception. For weeks during April and May that year I would reliably find him perched on the same fence posts next to a rural road and he typically wouldn’t fly off even when I had to drive by within 15′ of him – extremely unusual behavior for a harrier.<\/p>\n

The first time it happened I remember wondering if he was sick or injured but he was just fine. He would take off and hunt on the wing normally whenever he felt the urge.<\/p>\n

For this photo I was so close I wasn’t even using my teleconverter while shooting vertically. That almost never happens with perched harriers.<\/p>\n

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1\/2000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

This photo of the same bird on an adjacent fence post was taken two minutes after the previous one. This bird simply did not care that I was there and as close as I was.<\/p>\n

I dunno, maybe he thought he was a House Sparrow or a robin instead of a harrier.<\/p>\n

Ron.<\/p>\n

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Without question this is the “tamest” Northern Harrier I’ve ever photographed and I’ve had thousands of them in my viewfinder over the years.<\/p>\n

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