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Two Months of Photographing a Cooperative Northern Harrier

By Mia McPherson|May 13th, 2017|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Northern Harriers, Utah|Tags: birds of prey, Circus hudsonius, cooperative, fence post, First Spring, frame filling, harrier, harriers, hatched, hawks, Hawks of Utah, immature, male, Marsh hawk, mobile blind, molt, Northern Harrier, perched, photographing, plumage, post, preen, primaries, raptors, secondaries, spring, tame, wooden post, young|

There was a very cooperative first spring male Northern Harrier in a location where I photographed Short-eared Owls last year in northern Utah and for two months I could reliably see and photograph it frequently.