great focus on the face, and head angle! Was this taken toward the middle of the day? Like one of my previous images this week, on my monitor it looks like the light was too high to illuminated under the wings and it also created overexposed whites on the tail.
looks like you had light coming from behind making it difficult to properly expose the entire bird, without a flash. it is a lot easier to shoot with your shadow pointed at the bird in some soft light. love your compo here and the wing pose is really nice! may give it another round of sharpening.
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