1st Hummingbird shot..C&C Please

This is one from my first "real" set of hummingbird shots(other than at a feeder)..from Aug. 2010. It's the best of the lot, but not the greatest angle..C&C appreciated please.

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com/​photos/1tanker/6122953​767/

First of all, great capture. To get a great pose, with the wings at the right position is a mixture of luck and skill - so well done.
Having said that, a few suggestions
1. The flowers seem blown in parts and so draws attention away from the bird
2. Wish I saw all of the bird's eye
3. Bokeh is good, but it is noisy. Your ISO is 800, which is probably why it is noisy. Is it a crop - EXIF suggest so

Thanks pelooyen.

Yeah.. the flowers are blown-out big-time. I'm not great at PP yet, and just used DPP on this. I tried to bump the highlights down a bit.. but looked too flat.

I wish the whole eye was visible too.. but. I do like the wing detail, and being frozen, and there is a catch-light in her eyes.

Yeah ISO 800, and i had to reduce noise, whilst sharpening.. a fair bit. I didn't need ISO 800..it was just set already in the camera, and i had a few seconds to grab it and shoot. I started making adjustments, then she took off. lol You mean the pic as a whole is noisy, or the bokeh? It's also about a 50% crop.. i could have went less and a little less noise. I wanted a close view, but maybe i should have cropped wider.

It was also 1:00PM..and the dreaded noon hour sun above...harsh.

That was a year ago, and i've improved.. no hummers to shoot this year(for me), but i wanted some ideas on PP. thx again

Very nice.

Not bad - you nailed focus on the hummer and it looks like you stopped motion on him. The bright flower in the foreground is a bother as is the over exposure on it.

If you aren't shooting those things in AI Servo, you should be...would give you a series of images to choose from, rather than just one. You did well in keeping the bird parallel with the sensor to maintain focus.

Thanks everyone, greatly appreciated!

Yeah..i just quickly saw her as i walked by the Butterfly Bush.. didn't have time to set everything the way i should(didn't have it in AI Servo ), i just jumped quickly to grab a few shots. The bush in front ruins it..although it shows her in her natural activities..and it's bothersome because it's so o/e.

As i said earlier, PP is not my strong point.. i have to figure out how to dial down the overexposure. Maybe some layers? Maybe a looser crop will make the overexposure less blatant..together with some layers. I need to learn how to deal with ISO noise better, too.
I think the main thing that saved the shot was the high(1/4000) ss.