Nice sharpness and pretty good underwing detail Eye contact is also decent. The sun angle is not ideal as it creates a hot spot on top of the bird's head and casts the face in some shadows. Also I wish that you had an all rock or all sky BG. Having the bird overlapping both is visually distracting. You might try toning down the rocks a bit.
You did pretty well in difficult light but the rocks in the sun do not work at all for me. Two seconds before with all blue sky would have been a different story....
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