Flexibility Champ!

To me, the Northern Harrier is the flexibility champ!  Watching them floating along and then twist and be on the ground really before you know what they are going to do is very exciting! How they are able to do it I'm not clear on, but they do.  I caught this bird just floating along and then, within 4 seconds, is perfectly flat IN THE VERTICAL direction - as he heads to the ground to grab at his prey!  It is hard to convey in pictures and words, the incredible abilities of these birds to twist themselves in mid-air and change direction, often 180 degrees and still focus on the prey!