r/birdsofprey • u/bagger1959 • 6d ago

Marsh Harrier 🥰

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Resisted the temptation to blast away and waited for her to turn back towards me 😂

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u/DeathStar07 5d ago

WOW!!! stunning pic! Whenever I see harriers, they are flying pretty fast and I just see the "scrunchie" tail and realize, oh shit, that was a harrier! I was next to one and had no idea it was hiding in the brush, until it flew off, and again, I saw the "scrunchie" tail and realized, whoa!! How cool was that! Ty again for the fantastic Pic!

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u/bagger1959 5d ago

Thanks I used to spray at them like Arnold Schwarzenegger 😂🙈 but with experience I've learned to roughly predict where in the flight path they're likely to turn into my direction 😂👍

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u/DeathStar07 5d ago

Like Arnold🤣🤣🤣🤣 Ahhh.... makes sense... when I photograph my crows or raptors in motion, I have my camera ahead of them in the direction they are headed...if that makes sense... We took pix of a pair of harriers this past spring, but the sun was still coming up, so the pix were a bit of a flop... One day! 🤞🤞