I liked the background on this one and the bush just starting to bud. I cloned out some branches coming in from the left side and some dead foliage.
Canon 7DII; Sigma 150-600 at 600 mm. 1/640 at f6.3; ISO 200
Allen, it looks like you caught him in mid note of his song. I also like the background and the budding tree.
Thanks, @Shirley_Freeman. Yes, he/she was singing away and I chose the shot with the mouth opened the widest.
Well composed with very pleasant BG, detail, color, and exposure.
Superb detail in the sparrow and I love the singing pose, Allen. The head turn is perfect. As long as you were cloning on the left, I think you could lose the rest of the out of focus stuff in the Lower Left Corner and that one in-focus bud sticking in, which for some reason really draws my eye.
I echo the comments already given. Caught in the midst of action perfectly!
If I may suggest, clone or crop the bottom left - that twig does catch my eye 
Thanks for the comments. Here’s a re-post with the suggestion that the lower left corner be improved. Originally I just cloned the foliage out, but the dead space seemed to much(hence the withdrawn post above), so I just cropped that area out (with some cloning as well). Does it work?
Yes it does
Now you may want to try cropping the Right 5% or so - there giving the bird more space to its right - you may have to clone that bright twig in the top 1/4 on the right
BTW, the 2 main branches frame the bird very nicely!
