Winter birds

[Yellowhead]

The attached photo is one I took back in 2007. At the time I didn't see anything special about it, but over the last couple of years I kept coming back to it and kept tweeking it. The original was very sharp you could count the feathers. I have intentinaly removed most of the detail from the Junco for a reason. What I am trying to achieve is not so much a picture of a bird as a picture of the hardship and desolation of winter. I would like some feedback, do you think I achieved what I set out to do?

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[Yellowhead]

Ooops, sorry about that. Here the pic.