Very nice Art. Nice eye contact, sharpness, and exposure. I like the included habitat although I might remove the bright spot below the bird. I think the image could use some CW rotation to even out the horizon line of the water.
Nice composition, and I really dig the clouds in the sky! Great flying pose on the bird, and the exposure looks bang on. Although I like the flying OOF bird closest to the left edge, I'm not really crazy about the other ones that only look like light spots. You may want to apply a small gaussian blur to the lower part of the image to smooth out the tangles. If that is the ocean horizon we see in the BG then it suggests a CW rotation may be in order.
I agree on the rotation and bright circles(birds). You did great controlling the whites and got lovely detail under those wings. The birds angle, wing and tail spread are excellent. Congrats
The bird is super-sharp. Yes to a CW rotation and yes to losing the brightest o-o-f focus bird below the bird plus the other one that touches the bush. Some work on the BKGR is optional; the BOKEH there is strange. That was a great morning.
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