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    I've been weeding through some old files, and have come up with a number of them that I've never posted to BPN. Here's one from early May, 2017.

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    The pose is solid and the background as well. Like the composition with plenty of room around the bird.

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    Love this one Bill...perfect head turn, lovely colouring on the bird, cute how the claw is grabbing the perch. BG is very nice. TFS

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    I like the bird, but the BG looks a bit unnatural to me, looks like you blurred it. there are some masking / clone artifacts around the bird.

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    These beauties are so hard to catch, let alone catch with such a nice look back pose. TFS

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    Hi Bill, lovely little bird. They are always in motion so you did well. I agree with Arash that something appears a little funky with the background. Thank you for sharing.
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    Stunning bird and sharpness and oh what a perfect pose! The BKGR looks fine to me. Did you do any blurring or cloning???

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    Thank you for your comments. This was a few years ago, and I don't recall exactly what I did with it. I know I took out several errant twigs, and it appears to me that I must have done a bit of blur. I do see one artifact near the bird's back that I must have missed in the PP.

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