A male Hen Harrier hunting
We’ve come to look for the Short-Eared Owl. Instead, as I pull up the car, there’s a male Hen Harrier heading over the fields towards us.
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I slip out of the car door and hide behind the car as I take a few frames. It plummets dramatically to the floor in a farmyard up the lane and then it’s off, hugging the hills as if magnetically repelled, and forced to keep over a metre from the ground.
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It’s the first male I’ve ever seen.
I’m buzzing about it for days.