Beautiful pose. Looks like a heavy crop.
With the white background, the bird appears stuffed.
high key due to thick fog.. how's this?.. earlier time. still look stuffed to you
Yes, the bright white background makes the images look unnatural to me. If not stuffed, taken in the studio.
Out of curiosity, as a non-bird-photographer, why do you use quite such a high shutter speed? 1/1000 I could understand, but does 1/2000 give you significantly better freezing of motion?