Very nice bg in this image! The pose is nice, although he is a bit past what you would want. Harsh light it looks like, but you managed to pull out some nice details from under the wings.
Lovely flight pose you have captured here with a very pleasing background. The underwings look good but the shadows across the head I am finding pretty distracting.
Thank you all for comments. The light was harsh, but the action was on with the Pelicans. The shadows on the head were from the wing, if I remove it, it would look artificial- what to do?