What Are The Issues With These Pics

Post processing entirely from within RAW. Anyone have any suggestions for improvement#1

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Really, the only things I see wrong are the crops are a bit tight on the squirrel's rear end. That and maybe bumping up some selective saturation for the grass and the tree, but otherwise, they're lookin good.

trcsbrian, ThanX for your comment.

I just acquired a new lens and I can't get over how sharp and bright the results are from it. And I wanted to run these results past the folks here on the forum.

Nice captures - I would add an "S" curve with a fatter bottom end to add some more pop in the squirrel's coat.

Hiya midnight,

I just balanced out the lighting a little bit in the greens and light areas of the wood. Slight contrast tweak in those areas as well.
Levels to bring up the lighting in the whole image after I reduced the highlights, and finally a crop.
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