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you had a nice perch and BG, I like the pose too but the processing is off. the bid doesn't look like a king fisher as presented as a result of over processing. it is over sharpened and some noise is creeping in the head area, too much recovery (highlight or shadow ? ) combined with a color cast and too much contrast, the eye in real life bird is much darker. I'd re-process this one from scratch without any extreme adjustments and tit should come out nicely 
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can you upload the RAW file somewhere? I'll work on it
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Hi Mike, I looked at the RAW file, unfortunately it was toasted. the highlights are way over exposed and require lots of recovery and hence the rest of the image will look strange, next time make sure you expose for the whites, i.e. do not over expose them. When the pixels become saturated there is really no way to recover the details w/o the image looking unnatural. here the right exposure was about 3 stops lower
here is the RAW as captured in the camera, pulling down the whites will make them look grey like the OP
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Beautiful subject and neat perch. Good BG too. My first thought was that it looked bright on the highlights. My second thought, when seeing your repost, was that I would have kept it as a landscape (more or less like Arash did) as that is a big crop. Were the highlights not recoverable without touching the other tones?
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Thank you for your time and your help, Arash.
Daniel - it was tricky with the overexposure and I will certainly try again and be more selective (it is not until I get an image like this I realise how much light the plumage actually gives back out).
Better luck next time (or, more exactly, let's take the luck out of it). Much appreciated.
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