Winter Starling + Repost

Starlings have been hitting the feeders pretty hard with subzero temps here in Michigan,  This one was taken through our sliding glass door with late afternoon sun backlighting the scene.  I initiated the development of this image with Levels and cropped it slightly for composition. I lightened the deep shadows with a luminosity masks on dark5 and dropped dowm the highlights with another curves adjument on light1 luminosity mask. I tightened up the details with Topaz Detail on the bird and perch.  Undesirable to our native species, but photogenic for sure. K5 IIs 300 mm f4 (1/100 sec at f8.0, Iso 320)....................Jim

I adjusted levels to bring the blacks down a bit in the repost.