@austinvinar, I really enjoy your close-up pictures of nature, especially those of birds and flowers. Although I’m no expert in photo editing, I could offer a suggestion. Anyone on Lenspiration, please feel free to correct me!
As I studied your picture, I noticed several distracting elements (the stone, dirt, leaves, etc.) in the lower half of the picture. I’m not really sure if they should be eliminated, but I thought that blurring those objects could help bring out the bird better as the subject, especially since it is camouflaging with the background. I plugged your picture into GIMP and used the Gaussian blur filter to blur the lower half of the picture (see the picture posted below).
