I like it as is. Nice composition that, to me, gives more emphasis to the rising flight path. There is one really long light brown streak in the BG that I might try to tone down, but that is being really picky.
Nice bird. Nice wing position. Way-sharp. Nice image. No need at all to crop. The bird flying away from you (rather than towards you) and the yellow branch and a half just forward of the bend of the wing are negatives.
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Agree with Artie, super nice bird, great sharpness, nice image overall but having the bird fly towards the camera or even parallel would have made the image more 10X better.
I would take out some of the blue cast in the wings, but thats just me.