Here's an early morning hawk. I cloned out most of the bottom branch as it overpowered the bird. The tip of the tail is covered by what remains of the cloned branch. This is about a 50% crop.
Thanks for looking...tom
Very nice detail, especially for the crop. Some mighty bright light, but handled well. There's a bit of a sharpening halo around the dark edges of the branch.
I like the relaxed pose, sharp detail, and clean sky bg. The sidelighting created shadows on the bird and branch, but in this circumstance I doubt you could have moved to a position that would have provided frontal lighting because of the branch that obscured part of the tail.