Northern Harrier & Repost

This gentleman has been gracing us with his presence on a fairly regular basis recently and he seems markedly unafraid for a Harrier. He perched two posts down the fence once when I was opening the gate. The last couple of days he has apparently made a kill and dined in front of our house between the lawn and fence (we live in a prairie ecosystem and only mow enough for a fire break). He has allowed me to approach quite closely both days after he finished eating-particularly today. One of these days, I might even manage a decent flight shot, if he continues to cooperate.

7D, 500mm f4 lens, Hand held, f7.1, 1/1250sec, iso400, manual exposure, cropped from horizontal to square (11.9 MP of the original 18-full height). One horizontal oof grass stem that was particularly bright and annoying has been partially cloned. Otherwise, normal processing in CS4. Taken at 11:25 today, filtered sun.

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