I like the spotlight effect on the bird, the framing provided by the two upright twigs, good exposure on the bird, esp. since it is very easy to overexpose the whites in spotlight images with darker BG.
For me the vertical tan bar in front of the bird is a bit distracting. I would try to tone it down and also lower the brightness of the far left twig standing up. In spotlight images, I prefer the subject to command our attention, and the background to be unobtrusive.
welcome to BPN vaibha and wish you good luck for the future posts. as this is first post of yours i would keep mum and looking forward for next post :)
Per your request, here is a quick pass at what I mentioned earlier.
I used the eye dropper tool to select the color I wanted. Chose one close to the bird so the blend would be fairly smooth.
Use the brush tool, 10% opacity, and painted in the color over the tan stripe. My goal wasn't to eliminate any variation in the background, just soften it a bit.
I use a pen tablet (Intuous) which makes it easier to feather in the change, but you certainly can do it without.
I also lowered the brightness of the far left twig as mentioned.
There are other more sophisticated ways to do the same thing, such as selecting the area and then adjusting your selection, but the tech. mentioned seems to work OK.
Bay Backed Shrike - in spotlight
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