Thumbs up, author. Exquisite...!

A little bit of noise, but a VERY nice catch

One word. Spectacular.

good capture

Perfect timing ;-d
High marks from me GL

Great, great, great photo!!! V+F!!! Beautiful capture! How were settings on your camera set, and what camera did you use?

GoodOguy - Thanks for asking. No problem with asking and learning. Normally ISO 400 does not produce noise in my camera but I also had the shutter speed at 1/1600. In these contests I use images straight from the camera with a little cropping and a little exposure plus or minus. I can eliminate the noise by running the image in a de-noise app. I was trying for the best mix of speed, depth of field and blur to produce an image I liked that showed the fighting and stop most action. I can clean this image up in other programs that are outside the rules of this contest. I often shoot ISO up to 800 but with lower shutter speed and when I stay around F 8 there is little or no noise. On objects that do not move I do use the much lower ISOs,

Fantastic shot!!!

Congrats, wonderful photo

Congratulations

very generous loving human for sure - nice shot

To me that would be a squirrel in a bird feeder, not framed by a bird feeder. Perhaps if you crop it a lot closer.

Nice photo!

Nice. Might reduce the yellows just a little, and might consider cropping off the sides so we just see the man's hand's holding the frame (I might go to just to the left of his wrist on the left, and all the way to the frame on the right)