Distant Marsh Harrier

[David Morison]

While in a hide yesterday I saw this Marsh Harrier hunting over flooded grassland for about an hour on and off. It never came closer than 150 metres and was difficult to see with the naked eye, especially as it merged well with the dead vegetation. I only picked it up because a few hundred birds suddenly took flight from the water as it passed over. Did my best to photograph it and considering the distance I am fairly pleased with the greatly cropped result.

This appears to be a young female - lacking the pale forewing patches but I could be wrong. An adult male was also present for a couple of minutes.



7D plus EF 400mm f5.6L

David

[tesarver]

Re: Distant Marsh Harrier

Very nice David

Tom

[Stan]

Re: Distant Marsh Harrier

It never came closer than 150 metres

I've seen them down in Weymouth a couple of times but probably even further away than that. Bearing in mind the crop its not turned out too bad

Stan

[Muscat]

Re: Distant Marsh Harrier

Well,done for getting this shot, they are beautiful birds, I have seen them at Oare Marshes but never when I have had a camera and never very close.

[Hereford_EOS]

Re: Distant Marsh Harrier

Well,done for getting this shot,

I'll second that, well done

[Alan Campbell]

Re: Distant Marsh Harrier

Good natural image.

Alan