Common Cuckoo #2

Taken near Thol Bird Sanctuary, Mehsana, Gujarat, INDIA
Canon 1DMk IV, Canon 500, 1.4tc
16th Oct 2010, 8:05am
1/1600, f/9, 700mm, ISO 640

To be very frank here i've made the left wing of the bird cuz there was a trunk obstacle over the wing. here is the original post. and this is cropped too.
as said yesterday i was hesitated to boost ISO as it was my first hand experience with 1D body so not raised otherwise could have got much more better speed to freeze the entire sequence.

Good salvage of the shot Mital. I like the landing pose and the light's good too. I guess it has a caterpillar in the bill? Well done mate. :)

thanks a lot akos

good PP work Bhai...

thanks kiran bhai ji

Like the outstretched wings and the green background. Like what you did with the wing by the way.

Killer bird, pose, and underwing detail. There are some cloning smudges above the bird's left wing. After you fix that you can get rid of the branch through the tail :) That would work for me. To get rid of the smudges you could try a large 60% Opacity Clone Stamp Tool or, circle the whole smudged area with the Patch Tool and drag it over some smoother stuff.

guruji.. thanks for pointing out. really missed it :) will do and post.

here is the patched tail and recovered those dark patches on wing upper part

Much better, excellent in fact. Now just a crop from the bottom; that will minimize the impact of that large perch.