I feel your pain boulderwood. We are having yet another snowstorm here in Maine. Winter just sucks this year. I work for a garden center. It's been so cold here we have delayed getting our annual plugs as we don't want to fire up the greenhouses yet. It will cost us around $2000 per week to heat them at the temps we are having right now!
It seems a bit dark to me. Did you try increasing the exposure in PP? The branches are a little distracting but birds are tough since their habitat is branches! Sometimes you just can not get the perfect angle. If they would just pose the way we want them to!