Very nice capture Chris. love the eye contact and the wing position. Too bad that light angle didn´t allow to capture the full speculum iridescences. Very good job
Cracking shot Chris. Details are cool and the flight pose top stuff. Feel you have a sharper image than as shown and took the liberty to see. Only did a bg selection, nr on that and inverted, then new layer via copy and smart sharpen at 100%v1.0, then reduced opacity to 50% (felt it didn't need luminosity sharpening at all). . Flattened. You have it sir!
I like the feather details on the wings and body. Pity he was flying a bit away from you.
Good capture these guys are quick and he looks close to you.
Ditto the speculum iridescences.