Northern Harrier

[David Salem]

It's been a great raptor season already and the harriers have moved in right behind the migrating coots. This female gave me some nice eye contact and I like the cool wing position.

1DX---840mm---f6.3---ss1/3200th---ISO800---HH@7:15am---35% crop

Thanks as always for looking and for your input. I appreciate it.

David

[BenBotha]

I like the background, its sharp, light is good excellent wing position. What's there not to like!
Ben

[supreet.sahoo]

The HA seems to be good with beautiful light. Im a huge admirer of bgs with various colors and this one is right up there in the list. I just feel that the compo might be a tad bit too squarish in my opinion. Thanks for sharing

[Vijayashankara Nanjegowda]

A beautiful shot....

[Bob Serling]

Great shot of my nemesis bird, Dave. We have just a couple down here and they rarely come in close.

Sweet light, as always with your shots. Nice balance on your exposure, which can be difficult contending with whites, mid-tones and darks all at the same time.

[David Salem]

Thanks everyone.

Bob, I know you wanted to get a good one of a Harrier but they just didn't cross our paths right that day. Next time :)

[keith mitchell]

Sorry David unable to find any nits, great flight shot with good eye contact.

Keith.

[Vanessa caccamise]

Nice eye contact and bg!

[Karl Egressy]

Striking flight shot.

[Tobie Schalkwyk]

Great action freeze David! Nice sharp focus on the body, complementing BG.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Yup, show me one less than perfect. Thank you for sharing.

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the HA, details, sharpness, BG and composition works with the wing position. Well done David.

[gail bisson]

I love the IQ and the BG but I am not loving this comp. Feels awkward to me.
I would definitely add more canvas on the LHS
Gail

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Fantastic light, a raptor I would love to see and photograph some day! eye contact is killer and with great IQ. TFS

[David Salem]

Thanks everyone. I appreciate your comments.

Gail, I cropped this one this way because of the wing position and because I wanted to keep the color on the top and bottom and to keep it pretty tight to concentrate on the nice details. A 2X3 and a 3X4 didn't work well.
I usually don't crop to a fixed format for web viewing, but for printing I have to. Thanks for your comment

[Jim Neiger]

Good one, David! Another cool raptor in flight shot. Great bg too. BFAM

[Doug Brown]

Love the eye contact, sharpness, and BG. I've got to get out there one of these days!

[christopher galeski]

nice image,like the BG,good eye contact,nice IQ.TFS.