Northern Harrier Takes Flight

During a drive near my home in the Honey Lake Valley in northeastern California, I stopped to watch a Northern Harrier flying over some wetlands. It landed pretty close to the road, and I was able to take a few photos through the window of my "mobile bird blind." When it started flying, I continued to shoot, following it along the tops of the reeds. 
This piece is ten of those photographs combined into a panorama. Kind of a still-life-time-lapse kinda thing, or about 3 seconds of this bird's life.