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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.

An Intriguing and Very Tame Northern Harrier

By Mia McPherson|May 28th, 2016|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Northern Harriers, Utah|Tags: birds of prey, Circus hudsonius, First Spring, goofy, harrier, harriers, hawk, hawks, male, Marsh hawk, molt, Northern Harrier, perched, plumage, preening, raptors, rousing, tame, young|

While I have been photographing Short-eared Owls in northern Utah I have come across this intriguing and very tame Northern Harrier over and over in the same location.