Female Northern Harrier (juvenile)

[arash_hazeghi]

Here is a female juvenile northern harrier, the juvies have dark eyes, adults have bright yellow eyes and somewhat different under side plumage. taken in Half Moon Bay, CA.



1D4 700mm f/8 1/2500sec ISO 800.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Beautiful Brother... nice eye contact and the loved the top view of the bird..

[Randy Stout]

Arash:

Good to see you posting again.

Fine IQ here, with lovely detail in the feathers, creamy BG, nice pose. Excellent pop.

Nice eye contact too!

Cheers

Randy

[Ofer Levy]

Light, pose, eye contact, sharpness and detail are all superb!

[Robert Amoruso]

I agree with Randy.

WOuld have been cool to see the left wing primaries but then again he is banking so it is what it is. Well done capturing a pleasing look at the top of the bird.

[Stu Bowie]

Arash, good banking angle, with nice head turn. This angle shows the dorsal view very well, and I like the complimentary BG.

[Marina Scarr]

Lovely pose and HA. Great light and nicely exposed. In a perfect world, the dark spots in the BG to the left are a bit overpowering.

[Charles Scheffold]

Very nice feather detail and a fine background. Well done.

Charles

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Nice head turn, you timed here. Rest everything is excellent as always. Loved the eye-level shooting angle.

[Chris Kotze]

Excellent flight angle and what a super BG and light. Well captured

[Nico Steenberg]

Great sharp detail and IQ. Like the pose and glint in the eye. Subject is well exposed with good natural colours against a killer bg. Well done !

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Arash,
Always a big fan of topside views......it would be perfect if the near wing was more banked.....but still outstanding in every way!

[Indranil Sircar]

Arash, beautiful pose and details. I love light too. Is it at Blufftop? Did you get it recently?

[arash_hazeghi]

Thanks everyone,

Indranil this was made in Half Moon Bay back in Dec.

[James Salywoda]

Awesome shot Arash!!! I love the pose captured.

[Simon Bennett]

I like the forequarter banking pose, eye contact and shared tones of bird and background.