Red Sky At Night wrote:
I look forward to any tips you can offer. Thanks.
I don't know if you noticed, but you still had some fence on its face. So #1 is starting with your cloned pic, and with a small brush I cloned areas of the right color onto those spots. I tried to make the beak sharper by using a hard edge brush.
Also, you can experiment with cloning at lower opacity. Check the brush tool options.
#2 is obviously your original, with fresh cloning + a bit of beak borrowed from a web image and stuck onto your bird
#3 is the whole head replaced - oh look, it's now facing a different way! That was a horror, so I'm not going to explain my steps.
If you have interest in copying parts of one image to another, the terms are:
selection tools (there are many, depending on your software), copy, paste, transform tool (that allows you to move the pasted bit, change its size etc).
At its most basic, the process is similar to when you want to copy/paste text in a Word doc, web page etc: select, copy the selection, paste the selection somewhere else. Of course, complex composites are much more involved (layers, blend modes, resolution, color and light considerations, on and on).