Female Northern Harrier

[mao ouyang]

Canon 1DMKIII, 800 mm. F5.6. 1/1000 @ F6.3. ISO 500, handheld.

[adrian dancy]

I superb image. A pitty the bird's right claw wasn't a little more opened.

[John Blumenkamp]

This is awesome... I like the side angle view of the harrier, and the pose with the wings up and the head down is classic. Great sharpness and detail. I think your composition is right on too... excellent work.

[susanschermer]

OMG! I am so jealous. Remarkable capture.

[Graham Smith.]

Very nice capture!
neat pose, and excellent detail. I like the extra room you gave him below - crop well chosen

[Dave Mills]

Mao...You should be proud of this one!! This image meets all my criteria for a wonderful capture and I agree about a flawless crop. Well done!

[Dan O'Leary]

This is fantastic. Congratulations on the beautiful combination of colors, action, pose, slight blur... techs are great and the crop is, as noted, perfect. If I had to find something about it to be critical of, I wish the subject was looking slightly more up and to it's right. But I'd hang this on my wall any day.

[Nate Chappell]

I like everything about this one, the intense stare, nice habitat, comp and bit of blur in the wings, congrats.

[DanWalters]

Great shot! Really like the colors and the comp. She really is intent on what she is going after.

[Grady Weed]

A perfect example of why it is called a harrier! I too would take it any day.

[Art Kornienko]

I'm jealous too, excellent, love it, great crop/comp.

[Doug Rodda]

Awesome and handheld 800?!

[Mike Veltri]

Super shot, love the crop and light.