Quote Originally Posted by Kayaker72 View Post
Thanks Joel. The things you do not notice, but then become apparent. I didn't really do a "patrol" of the edges, but you are right. I just tried to remove in LR, and did not really like the results. I may have to try photoshop, but, honestly, I barely know photoshop. ..
I would start with the patch tool to remove large sections of the stick and then close to the edges of the bird I would zoom way in and use a very small clone stamp.
Make sure with the patch tool it is set at the top to "content aware fill".