I am not a fan of selective coloring. I feel it takes away from the photo. However, sometimes nature provides it for you.
I did desaturate the blue and magenta tones just to remove the color cast, but this is pretty much what the scene looked like to my naked eye.
I also did clone in a few more birds just to fill the frame a bit. The four birds at the top are all original, but the the ones near the middle were cloned in.
Very cool picture, but i must admit the side branches sticking in on the right distract me from the main subjects.
I feel the same way... it’s one of those thing I didn’t pay attention to until after I posted