So today was awful weather and the birds were not cooperating.
This is one of the better frames from today but it is too far away and the background is too busy.
This is the lemon I have to work with so this is what I did.
This is the original in LR
With Lightroom adjustments
The photo was then taken to PS and using a soft brush and the eye dropper the background was copied and the branches cloned out.
The Topaz detail extractor was used to get more details out of the body.
Joaquin...you did pretty good. But the big distraction is the noise.
I would keep #3 and start/end there.
The noise will still be there, but not as prominant as the final crop.
I would just remove the limbs, including the big limb intersecting right behind the bird.
Another reason for sticking with #3 is bird placement. In the final crop he's dead center.
In #3 he's a little more off center and not as large in the frame.
Hi Joaquin- Hard to do much with this. The main issue other than surroundings/background is the huge crop needed to portray the bird as you did. If the subject is small in the frame and the image is worth working on I try to embrace this and work with the environment as well as the subject with a much looser crop. When you have to enlarge the subject so much, the noise is enlarged as well and becomes a prominent part of the image as here.
Excellent job cloning, but with that much of a crop, noise is going to be a huge issue at workable ISOs. I'd work on field technique at this point in your learning -- how to get closer. Or how to become wealthy and get a longer lens and / or a body with less noise..... That might be the easiest thing to do!
But, seriously, no matter what equipment we have we all have to learn its limitations and how best to use it.