SharpShin Hawk & RP

I was looking through old files for something appropriate for this weeks "Weekly Challenge" and ran across a folder from Septemb er 21st, 2013 of a close encounter with a Sharp-shinned Hawk that perched up on a dead Madrone branch that we used to hang bird feeders and was about 6-8 feet from our back porch door.  It stayed put and gave me a bunch of poses after I'd opened the door.  I posted one at the time, but we were heading out on a vacation to Australia shortly thereafter, and byu the time we returned, I'd forgotten about it.  Since I found them, I thought I'd process another one (or two) and post it.

1Div, 300mm f4 ISL + 1.4TC, hand held, f/8, 1/800, iso 640, aperture priority, pattern metering, no compensation.  Processed in LR5 & CS6.  Slight crop from a vertical original to reframe the bird a bit, removed some extra branches that didn't intersect either the bird or perch and darkened the bright area above the bird and the perch a bit.  I may have darkened the perch a bit too much-I'd be interested in your opinions.  Final size is 11.4 Mpixels (16MP is full frame on this camera).  Taken at 3:44 pm on September 21st, 2013.  I can't recall for sure, but I think the light was filtered sun.

I appreciate your comments on the last post and look forward to your input on this one.

Thanks,