Stuart I like the egret´s pose and the timming but something doesn´t works with the processing job. It seems that the egret has some haloes due to the excesive use of S/H filter or an unadequate unsharpmask, not sure about the reason. I would try to reprocess the image again ;-)
Great timing Stuart and I like the action you captured. IMO I would like to see a more horizontal crop though rather than a square. Many thanks for sharing.