@casablanca I will tell the people at Oakvale next time I visit that you suggested the Scarlet Pimpernel as a name for him, I am sure it will catch on.
He is quite a handsome fellow I have to say. When my mum was a kid my nan had chickens and a big old rooster and it was always the rooster that would attack my mum any time she walked through the back garden.
Such a handsome chap.. loving the details in the feathers but also in his wattle and comb too.. great focus on that all-seeing eye.. beautifully done Babs..
More on catchlights if interested... http://www.photokonnexion.com/catchlights-definition/
This chap was certainly bossy and he was huge too, so intimidated a lot of the birds at the farm. Even the swans backed away from him.