Beautiful, excellently executed and blended. Your perfect masking work can be fully appreciated in high resolution! If anyone wonders what a perfect extraction looks like, look here. Here is your goal.

Now here's my challenge, author, LOL: let the sky show through that softly sheer lace edge.

I agree with elemare, nice work all around. Good idea elemare has also, about a hint of sky showing through.

Congrats Rob wonderful work

Congrats again Rob!!

great image, right on theme author well done

Very nice!! like the eagle .GOOOOOOD LUCK dude

Many many thanks Mina

Don't kill the sea eagle!! LOL, nice entry, good luck!

Just a wee bit too dark behind his legs - It looks like there is a square shadow being cast onto the tail area. The feet are also a bit odd colored. Perhaps a light application of the Dodge Tool to bring up their contrast a bit?

It's great you could get this photo, but step 7 is better.

Initially I thought after looking at step 7 that the area under the foot of the eagle is too bright.so i decided to make it darker, but apparently it makes everything look a mess. Thank you so much Mossy, for your input, I'm very happy to get any input from all friends , and I'll learn a lot from here.

CMYK46,what you say is true, if I stop at step 7 of course the result is definitely better than this.thank you for always giving me comment and input.about the eagle, finally someone came to take it from our home.i thought it was better because I am scared of the eagle.my hands bleed when I tried to touch his feathers

Oh, it's not wise to try to touch wild birds, especially babies, the mother will abandon them if they smell humans. You did get a fantastic shot, tho - he posed for you! Not a mess at all, step 7 lighting fine, but final image works, too.

The perspective of the feet is at a different angle than the body, with the front legs shorter than the back.