Montagu's Harrier, Hessarghatta, Bangalore

[AB Apana]

A frame showing the bird in full. I could have cloned out the OOF vegetation in the BG. Any ideas of this? Specifically, would that mean the image is digitally altered or that the essential truth of the image has been compromised?

EOS 40D, 500f4 + 1.4x converter, ISO 400, handheld on Aperture Priority @ f8.

(Kiran, as requested, the entire bird, and very beautiful raptor at that).

Thanks for looking. Comments and critique welcome.

Apana