Female Northern Harier (Marsh Hawk) - The Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Basking Ridge, New Jersey

Another capture from the Day of the Harrier.
And here she gives a close look at a vole.
I'd love to see how this looked from the vole's eye-view.
Pretty scary I'll bet!

Notes:
If you look to the right at my settings, you'll see I was pressing the limits for this capture with ISO 400 (less noise), 1/800 (pretty much the minimum to stop the action), and F5.6 to get just enough DOF to cover the whole bird. When pressin' the limits you takes your chances, but when it works it works.

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Make:	Canon
Model:	Canon EOS 50D
Exposure:	0.001 sec (1/800)
Aperture:	f/5.6
ISO Speed:	400
Focal Length:	600 mm
Lens:	EF600mm f/4L IS USM