A few things i did while processing this image. First thing was cropped, this is about a 40% crop. Blurred some out of focus branches from the background and cleaned up some of that busy perch. I also bumped up the saturation in the eye from a orange color (due to lighting)to the bright red color that this bird actually had. Anyways, let me know what you think.
canon rebel xt
canon 400mm F5.6L at F5.6 hand held
1/1250th of a sec
iso: 400