Is this a scanned print or is this photo taken digitally?
Whatever, I think I'll move this out of Critique and into Landscape and Nature, you will get "thoughts and hints" there, too!
My thought is: it is quite a noisy photo (hence my question on whether this is a scanned print), the scene is very small, very far away, and the little splashes the duck makes in its take-off procedure get overpowered by the noise, I'm afraid.