Hmmm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nohkalikai_Falls#/media/File:NohKaLikai_Falls_V2_Wiki.jpg

So just a repost from Wikipedia.

If your software does have the right luminance tool, a little effort can really improve photos with light/dark issues, but it does really need RAW format to really work well (it needs the extra info that RAW holds).

Thieving Magpie really is a thing, though I’ve never seen anything as brazen as yours.

Do you shoot RAW format photos? If so, I’d try looking at your luminance curve/tone histogram/whatever your software calls it. Any photo with a lot of sky and a lot of dark stuff tends to leave the dark stuff too dark - with a histogram tool, just applying to the whole photo, you should be able to brighten up the dark stuff, revealing more detail, without doing too much harm to the sky. Then your classic framing will be better rewarded.

Or take an entirely different approach and work out when the sun will be in the best position to light up the scene naturally.

Monopods (or indeed tripods, or even just bracing against walls) matched with slower speeds might also reveal more detail.

One of the great mysteries of life: why is that bird feeder ignored while this one empties in hours?

That’s delightfully sinister, isn’t it?

Since they were taken in the UK, I can safely say “Buzzard”!

And thank you.

You will definitely please some birds with suet balls and cakes - but don’t try the fancy ones - suet and seed is fine, berries or the like appears just to be off-putting.

I like the tidiness of the feathers on its back - the Grey Herons round here (Reading, UK) tend to scruffiness!

A good example of a photo where you study it for the unexpected details you’d never be able to see with your naked eye - even if the first impression is a CCTV dome on a ceiling!

I always felt sorry for them after reading Bill Bailey’s “Remarkable Guide to British Birds”, where he describes them as the unluckiest of birds … but for the reason, well, treat yourself to the book, it should amuse, and might even inform!

Heavy, sometimes hard to point in the right direction (both by weight and the obvious narrow angle of view), but the extra reach at 800mm is really nice. On a tripod in a bird hide it would be wonderful, but alas, I do my birding by wandering.

It’s the green eyes that get me.

Yay!

And thank you!

Hah, so a UK Great Tit is a Dutch Coal Tit - marvelous!

So what would you call this Coal Tit?

Now that’s the sort of analysis I ought to do, and never find the time! Well done!

It may be a “classic” shot, but you’ve done it well, and I particularly like that you’ve kept focus all along the length of the hall. Were you focus stacking or something?

I’d have guessed Great Tit rather than Coal Tit, from the yellow breast and lack of white on the back of the head, but, still, a nice clear shot.

Given these are close relatives of European Firecrests and Goldcrests, and the challenges I have photoing them, I’m impressed with these photos!

It has the air of Rosebay Willow Herb in the UK after the seeds are gone, e.g.

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/late-summer-stands-rosebay-willowherb-start-2684810343

But that’s a wild guess, especially since I don’t know where the photo was taken!

And yes, a curiously satisfying shot.