shrike

canon 450d, canon 400mm, f/5.6, 1/125, iso-200

This is a very nice image you have created, good lighting, correct exposure, sharpness, the catchlight in the bird's eye make it a very nice image. IMHO the composition could probably be improved by cropping off the top of the image as the branches lead the eyes out of the image. The image then would be in a rectangular format with the birds head in the intersection of the upper right third and the lower left two-thirds of the image. The perch would then lead the eye from the lower left to the bird.

Lovely exposure on this one Jit, crop from top will enhance the image
tfs

Nice eye contact and details. The colours look good. Agree with Gautam's comment. Thanks for sharing.

Nice image. I agree with the comments. I like the eye contact. Also, a narrow aperture would have been nice. Thanks for sharing.

thanks for the comments and valuable suggetions...