Stonechat enviro + repost

I photographed this female stonechat in the dunes near my home on a dull day, so I included the environment to add a little more colour to it.
Nikon D80 @ 420 mm, iso 200, F 7.1, 1/400 sec. on tripod.

I do like this pic., but may have been tempted to crop the OOF green in the bottom right corner.

There are some yellow/green items top right which don't bother me, but I do find myself wondering what the bottom right is, and it isn't really relevant.

Having said that, a cracking shot of a bird I would not have recognised. Thanks for bird recognition books.

Hi Sandra, I certainly would crop out the OoF green thing on the right. I think you get a much better photo then. May be you can try making it portrait or square shaped. Personally I would go for a square. But keep the bushes in the picture.

Lovely,classic stonechat pose captured, the OOF green area I would clone out,could you crop it portrait format?,lovely photo Sandra

I agree with Craig, it would make a nice portrait image. It looks sharp and I like the pose just needs some nice light.

lovely image, the setting is great and the composition works nicely too

very nice, good pose & surroundings. The crop works for me but I would also try it in portrait if only to see it without the green in the bottom right.

Lee

Yes I agree about the OOF stuff. A very nice image nonetheless.

Nice shot Sandra, agree re the cropping suggestions.

Andy...

Thank you all for your comments and the cropping suggestions. So I tried cropping it diffently and liked the portrait format best.

I agree with whats been said Sandra but I would have tried a bit longer horizontal crop as well.
I reckon they both work.
JohnR

The portrait works best for me. I really like how the chat looks "the wrong way" actually makes it a stronger image I think!

For me first image was better

Sandra, I am a bit late to the party here, however the Portrait is on the money, a lovely image well done