develop the raw in DPP. PP in photoshop: crop, levels, select the bird and copy in another level, topaz adjust and big gaussian blur in the sky, contrast on the bird, clone out a little pint, usm.
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Wonderful imagei love the smoothness of the sky and the detail on the bird.
2 things though: I personally don't like the abundance of empty space in the image, and as a whole i don't sense a "silent" subject, i can almost hear the bird's "CACAWWW"