Sometimes having the subject smaller in the frame works wonders, such as here. Same individual and same perch as the previous image I shared, but I like this one better even though the subject is quite smaller in the frame...I love the perch and surroundings so I wanted to include more of that "agricultural" habitat.
Incidentally, can you believe this is a December 27th image? Most of what you see here should be white and covered in snow! It was like that just last week, but everything has melted away with a recent warm spell...but now the cold has returned, and soon the snow again.
Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/320s., f/4, ISO 800, FF, natural light, handheld, lightened the eyes' irises, toned down the bit of yellow patch running behind the subject's tail.