Well, I gotta say that I am proud of my Photoshop work here as I pretty much fooled everyone all the way. Ilija, that mark on the back is in the ORIG capture as posted in this pane but I should have fixed it. I believe that the only thing correct that was mentioned was that I was a bit heavy-handed with the Linear Burn....
As you can see, I removed all kinds of seed pods and branches that merged with the bird's face and the top of its head.
Thanks all for you comments and for playing and to Ilija for putting the difficulty of this capture into persepective (that from the guy who says constantly, "We can only judge the image; the situation is irrelevant." :) :) :)
ps: To get an idea of the techniques that I used, check out today's blog post, "Photoshop Magic/Panama" here: www.birdsasart-blog.com
And scroll down for more on Panama. And/or check out today's BAA Bulletin for still more Panama stuff here: http://www.birdsasart.com/bn296.htm