Jeep Daddy's comments and edit in your Analysis topic discussed the white balance issue + showed you the value of cropping close - to both eliminate the harsh sky and to make the swallow the star.

My edit is to show you how the image was adjusted in PS Elements raw editor (a modified version of PS ACR). If you even out the exposure and don't sharpen while in the raw editor, you can make selective adjustments in your main editor after you decide on where to crop.

How much editing you can do, or are willing to do, is dependent on your skill level and interest in learning post processing.

Hope you'll visit with us again; all the best in your journey.

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It's really not a very good photo to start with. I'm not knocking your photo based on your skill, but simply on the way the sky is on this day, the light, how close you are, no catch light in the eye of the bird, not as sharp as a wildlife photo can and should be etc....

But I've opened it up, used some basics in ACR, cropped it, and saved as a jpg to upload here. I've done nothing much other than crop and hit auto in ACR.

Actually, after posting my first attempt, I decided that the white balance is way off. It shouldn't be that purple or blue. So I took the white balance dropper and touched the white breast of the Tree Swallow and wala. Much better color.