Dark Morph Swainson's Hawk

[Erik Anderson]

Olympus 510 70-300 @300mm, f7.1, 1/320 ISO200, .0EV

[Joerg Rockenberger]

Nice pose but I'd crop more from the left and leave a bit more to the right making it a vertical. Did you apply a lot of shadow recovery? The tail as well as other parts of the body look a bit muddy to me. JR

[Axel Hildebrandt]

The open beak and eye contact look very good. I agree with John regarding lack of contrast and wish for a lower angle. I could also see this as a vertical crop.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Another vote for vertical. Lovely calling pose. Looks muddy under the tail especially. thanks for sharing. :)

[Joe Senzatimore]

And yet another vertical vote. Does seem to lack detail as well. Perhaps from a large crop???

[Aidan Briggs]

Good comments form above. I'll add that the sky is way over-saturated. I would go into the blue and cyan channels in PS, and take away 10-20 points.