Hi Richard, good exposure on the blacks of the bird. The consequence seems to have been the harsh brightness of the rocks on either side. In my case I would start by trying to bring down their brightness, probably in the original raw. I'd then try to clone/patch out the green pieces of the background and the yellow flower (nice as it otherwise is). Finally, it might be possible to improve the messiness of the background by masking out the bird and front rocks, then running about a 20 pixel gaussian blur on the background alone.