The grey ghost

[arash_hazeghi]

This is a male northern harrier, aka the grey ghost. They are extremely skittish and hard to photograph, have very few frames of the male. He caught me by surprise and only gave me a single pass but I was lucky the light was nice and I had a few frames.

1DX 600 II + 1.4X III f/5.6 1/3200sec ISO 1000 handhold. Hope you like him.

[David Salem]

Fantastic shot of a tough subject, and in some beautiful light! Nice work Arash. See ya next weekend.

[keith mitchell]

This is a superb shot I can't see anything that I would like to change, bird looks spot on and that BG is simply stunning.

Keith.

[Carl Walker]

Stunning shot Arash. Great framing. Love the background tones and there is super light here. Excellent work

[Joe Murphy]

Great light, love the eye contact & details.

[Bill Dix]

Wonderful. Great background, detail, light, eye contact. These guys are so skittish that I've only rarely seen one. Capturing a grey ghost in such a great image is a real feat.

[Holger Leyrer]

Boa, what a shot. It's a great foto of the grey ghost

[nick clayton]

As usual a faultless image from you Arash, the standout factor for me is the quality of the warm light.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Killer raptor and light, you couldn't have been any luckier!

[John Robinson]

All been said Arash
Spot on.
JR

[Doug Brown]

I'm envious!!!

[Grace Scalzo]

I am speechless. Totally great image of a hard to capture bird. You must be super jazzed to have this one in your files.

[Richard Flack]

Incredible, incredible image Arash! Inspires me to practice my flight shots. Awesome!

[Jamie Douglas]

Nice one Arash, it looks like this male harrier timed his fly by perfectly with the sun angle. I hope to have some success with a local grey ghost this winter.

Jamie

[arash_hazeghi]

thanks everyone

[MohsenVahedipour]

Perfect light, wing position & excellent IQ. Lovely BG & underwing details. TFS

[shane shacaluga]

Beautiful image! The bird is excellent but that BG is just amazing!!!

TFS

[mohammad reza shahab]

Fantastic shot.excellent light, wing position & Lovely BG.