This is a great image.
Personally I would make it a squarer crop losing most of the post at the bottom and a small amount off the top (my opinion).
Well done, good capture :D
Jan
I like the composition as is but I can see where a square crop would also work. The colors are very nice and I like the eye contact. Very simplistic....which is a characteristic that I like. Interesting that the colors of the pipe work so well with the bird and the BG. Well done.