thank you Aswini,
I have come up with new version as per all your suggestions here:
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=377 , please see if it works better.
This was a monochrome image direct from camera except for the slight blue tint which I converted in PP. One of the main difficulties was me wanting the bird to be in one area but as you all know that's not under our control and in most of the cases it goes against our wishes (it was constantly moving and I too had to move and recompose each time). And it was really scary to shoot such a bright subject, it seemed more bright than Sun.. after/during composing, I almost went blind
. Due to brightness of water reflection, trying to highlight the bird was difficult or rather quite impossible. I have series of images with various compositions (which I will share sometime soon if they seem good) but this is the one which I felt to be more unique for my taste buds.