This is an early morning light shot. When I saw the light at the sunrises I was looking for any bird to photograph, I just wanted to catch the awesome light. The quality of the light on my head is much better with the one capture here.
Lovely light, perfect head angle,nicely exposed, pretty sharp.
Foreground a bit busy, but it is this birds habitat! I might clone out several of the grasses that go up towards the birds breast. I might also selectively sharpen the head and eye one more pass.
If you have the canvas, and its clean, I might add in just a bit more room to the right.
In addition to all of the great comments above I would get rid of the feather (???) in the llc.
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