Young Pied Wagtail

[tom24]

Looking for crit on this capture,not so much the composition as i was seated trying to catch feeding swallows over water.
Am i on the right road with the tweaking i've done,it wasn't much but i am just learning, although i like it, i need to know if i've done anything wrong.
Thanks

CSC_3908 by Thomas Reid, on Flickr

 

[BRASH]

Well, as for the composition (it jumps out to me I'm afraid) I'd have it slightly further to the right of frame. The dof really shows on the wall and the foreground is a bit distracting and cropping a from that side may help. I'm not usually too bothered about oof in front of the subject but I think the angle of the dof on the wall makes it a bit more pronounced and noticeable in this shot.

The subject itself looks good on my iPad but I'd need to see it on a bigger screen to judge sharpness and detail. I'd consider cloning out the oof blob in the bottom left corner, it does lead the eye away. All in all tho a fairly pleasing shot, with a wee bit more attention to the finer detail would be very good imo.