I just went out at lunch yesterday as it was so sunny and bright.
I took this with my Polariser fitted so the sky was made darker to start with, then after creating a few layers in Photoshop, changing the hue one one to be purple, greeying another and then masking out the owl to leave it the original brilliant golden colour I ended up with what you see here.
The original was nice and sunny - this just seemed to say more.
In fact, here it is - any comments on how you'd have edited it would be good to hear