{"id":91776,"date":"2020-11-27T05:07:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T12:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=91776"},"modified":"2020-11-27T05:34:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T12:34:26","slug":"northern-harrier-flight-maneuver-the-rest-of-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/27\/northern-harrier-flight-maneuver-the-rest-of-the-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Harrier Flight Maneuver – The Rest Of The Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I posted a single photo from this series and told readers I’d post the rest of them as soon as I could. Black Friday was my first opportunity.<\/p>\n

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Two days ago I found this female Northern Harrier on a low perch at an intermediate distance from the road. Her coloration was so cryptic against the setting I was lucky to have spotted her at all. As I approached I saw another photographer pass her by without even touching his brakes, almost certainly because he hadn’t seen her. That could have been me and more than once it has been in the past.<\/p>\n

I only had time for a couple of shots before she gave me some behavioral indications of imminent takeoff.<\/p>\n

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First she pooped. Then she broke out into a long, leisurely and simultaneous stretch of four of her five extremities – both wings, her right foot and leg and her tail which is twisted far to her right side and flattened against her right wing (her tail is easier to distinguish from the wing in the next shot).<\/p>\n

I took many photos during the languid stretch including several that remind me of….<\/p>\n

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some Batman logos I’ve seen.<\/p>\n

The following six photos are sequential without any skips. She seemed so relaxed during the stretch that she surprised me when she hadn’t even completely finished stretching when she…<\/p>\n

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abruptly took off.at about a 45\u00b0 angle toward me.<\/p>\n

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For the first wingbeat or two she was beginning to turn very slightly away from me to her right.<\/p>\n

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You knew I’d have to clip a wing in at least one shot in the series.<\/p>\n

For some reason she shook her head in flight and then…<\/p>\n

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abruptly banked further to her right, changing her flight angle relative to me from about 45\u00b0 to about 90\u00b0. This is the photo I posted yesterday.<\/p>\n

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At the end of her quick bank I kept her in frame for one more photo but her speed and flight angle had changed sufficiently and so quickly that…<\/p>\n

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I couldn’t follow her with my long lens. All I got in this last photo in the series was most of her tail.<\/p>\n

Nope, I won’t be putting my copyright watermark on this one.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Note to photographers: Image techs for this series are in the range of 1\/5000 – 1\/6400, f\/6.3, ISO 640, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Yesterday I posted a single photo from this series and told readers I’d post the rest of them as soon as I could. Black Friday was my first opportunity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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