- take photos on a day with a featureless grey sky
- use an unsuitable lens
- crop a ridiculous amount
- resize even smaller to get the file size down to less than 256 KB
I managed to meet all the above criteria and get these shots:
Indeed. As any kind of photograph.
Unless for ID.
Maybe better to find a crop frame, so ?
Not always. And it can give opportunity to keep shooting at at times when the light would no longer allow it and become too harsh.
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It’s nice to know that rules are made for breaking 
Actually my post was more an attempt to wind up @Joanna than a serious offering of bird photos 
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My motto exactly
Awww. All I can say is, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably an eagle 
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Perhaps I should give some more details on how severe a crop I applied. You might want to sit down first though…
The full frame is 6960x4640 pixels. Before I resized them for upload, the first was cropped to about 1000x670 and the second to about 1600x1070 pixels. In the former case that gives a 35mm equiv. focal length of about 2800 mm and for the latter about 1750 mm.
Nonetheless, I ran the first one through Topaz Photo AI for a 4x enlargement and sharpening of just the bird and got this…
Hmm, interesting, maybe I should see if Topaz offer a good price on Black Friday.
You absolutely should try Topaz Photo AI. I have lost count of the number of focus-near-misses it has saved for my swooping swallows. And the upscaling is handy as well, to “de-crop” your photos when you were standing too far from the target.