Thank you very much Curmudgeon. There are a few more on my website. They were particularly active near Frenchglen one evening. The light was great and there were a couple pair gathering nesting material and hunting

Thanks retired. We wanted to find the lek, but the sage burned a few years ago and no one knew where the leks were now. We asked at the field station and at the visitor center. The one guy who may know was out of town.

Thank you very much Earnest

Thanks tcthome. We are lucky to have such variety from the coast to mountains to desert with some important flyways

Thanks very much manglesphoto

Thank you kpmac

Thanks very much JD. For me I find harriers are particularly photogenic partly because their coloration provides good contrast for focus to lock in on I think.

Thanks very much NMGal

That's why I'm glad my wife's around to do the identifying

Thanks very much rwm283main

Thanks Mike, though a Harrier, not an owl. I see the resemblance. Here's a recent Great Gray Owl.

My wife and I took a two week camping birding trip to Eastern Oregon. From Ashland we stopped in Summer Lake, Malheur NWR, the Zumwalt Prairie, returning through Fort Rock, Cabin Lake and back to Summer Lake. We started on April 15, a little early for returning warblers and shorebirds in this part of the world though there were several migrants here and there. We did see nesting raptors, lots of ducks, and a goodly collection of passerines. I've posted pictures to three collections at mrtk.smugmug.com if you would like to see some of the photographically cooperative birds at these locations. Not all are what you would call artistic, but they reflect a little of what's around at the end of April. Here's a sample:

I denoise first as per Topaz and others. It helps to see details when post processing especially in noisy photos.

Thanks very much topcat

Thank you very much Bubalola