Todd, I'm afraid I'm going to have to dissent from the general opinion. I try not to rail against digital too much on here, but I think the drawbacks of the medium are really apparent in an image like this. The high contrast of the sunlight hitting the birds' backs shows up and creates a wierd effect when butted up against the dark grey of the sky. Even on my crappy monitor here at work, I can see unnatural-looking halo effects around every single one of the birds. This could be reduced a bit with a better compression quality, but all in all the image looks too much like a video capture to me. Sorry. I'd really like to like this picture more since you really caught a fantastic moment but its technical shortcomings really blow it for me. Chances are I'd never even notice these issues (or notice it less)against a bright blue sky, but such is life and you couldn't do anything about that.