My finger hovered over the delete button for a while because of those wind blown feathers..but I liked the complimentary background color enough to keep it.
Taken out of the window of my vehicle on a reservoir dam that bird was foraging along. No audio used. Cloned a couple distracting branches out.
Nikon D500, 500mmF4VRII, TC-14EIII
iso 640, 1/1250s, f8
I also like wind blown feathers, it shows movement and makes it come alive. I do find myself wishing there wasn't so many OOF branches in the BG though. I also would go with a little looser crop if you have.
Hi Jack. Glad you didn't delete this one...I love the wind blown feathers. Nice and sharp, good HA and perch. I do find the oof branches a little distracting though. The yellow in the head does seem a little over saturated to me...is that its natural saturation? TFS