I love the thin perch here, really nice. Good BG overall except for the brighter streaks at left. Good details. A better head angle would have made the light splash on it nicely, and I'd have preferred the subject a bit lower in the frame.
Nice one Ed. Good pose and head angle, and I like the curved perch and squarish crop. I do wish for a lower sun more directly at your back but even so you've managed to capture good detail in both the blacks and the sunlit reds, which isn't easy in such bright light. I'd like it even more if you toned down that bright background twig at upper left.