Pied wagtail

This might not be to everyones taste, but I really like the blue contrast against the monotone bird.

It required a bit of intensive PS work to remove two large blobs of bird guano from the boat cover and I think I will be seeing spots for a couple of days yet

mmmm web jpeg compression has done something strange to the white on the face which is not on the original file

Looks OK to me Mike.
Not easy birds to get right at the best of times.
JohnR

Nice pose Mike but BG looks like a lot of noise on my laptop

Hi Mike,

Lovely pose and nice detail!

Doesn't quite work for me if I'm honest. I find the boat's colour and texture competes just a bit too much with the bird. The square crop works great though.

I think its not a bad image at all, the boat cover does grab the eye a bit though.
On a PP note with regard to the bird droppings removal, rather than cloning on a regular pattered area I would convert the image to a layer,
Layers> new layer from background>click ok. select the eraser and set a suitable size and erase the droppings, then select a large area of the patterned (simalar sized and focused) part of the image, copy and then paste it back onto the shot, then go to Layers> arrange> send to back, you can then move this around until it lines up, and then flatten the layers and do any slight "tickling" needed! Often however you will find this method will make an invisible mend!

Thanks Nigel, that's just about what I did, but lining up diagonal dots and then dodge and burning tools to hide the colour mismatch is the time consuming bit

Nice image, I like the crop and the textures in the foreground and background, it works for me!

Brian

You did well to persuade it to stop wagging its tail long enough to get a shot! The boat cover is OK, since that was what he was sitting on. I would prefer a little less of it though.