The light... The BG... The colors.... The Perch... The composition... The painterly feel of the image as a whole... Love them all!!!! Even the noise does not bother me as it is uniform throughout. Maybe I'm not enough of a pixel peeper;I love the overall impact of this one!!!!
Beautiful image Judy !!! Particularly like the pose and feel Sweet bg Some noise (not much) easy to remove but wait till you start using the D3 .... will be a thing of the past !!! Big Congrats !!! .... btw only wish for a slightly better light angle