Osprey on Hunt at Dashpoint Park, WA

Went out with a new Tamron SP AF 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2 lens on my Nikon D3500 at a local Park here in Washington. The area has a few Ospreys who like to hunt around sunset at this park. This lens apparently does pretty well hand held out to 500mm.
I am still very new to Darktable so any insight to processing is welcomed. Outside of the software’s default modules I used lens correction, exposure, crop, color balance rgb, haze removal, color calibration, difuse or sharpen, and denoise modules. I can expand on any of these if needed.

Here is the RAW and XMP file if you want to play with it .

On a less formal note, I hope folks enjoy the image.

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Hi and welcome to the forum. It’s a nice shot, but if you want people to process the image, you’ll need to assign it a license and post the raw on the play_raw category.

TY. I had set the license in the image but assume it needs to be in the post’s text as well? I will post in the play_raw category as well. Thx again for the assist.

Is the lens a good lens in your opinion? the shot posted here looks very clear.

So far, yes. Very happy with the lens. Focus full range is about 1/4 to 1/3 turn range on the ring from end of focus to the other and super smooth. This is handy when tracking subject and and being able to focus with just the thumb while trying to hold steady the lens. My first lens this heavy so don’t know how normal the weight is for a lens this size.