What's Going on in These Shots?
 

Shot number one is the original except fopr size. Shot number two has been p.p'd and I'm getting a great deal of softness into the image. The original was digiscoped through a window. I was posting it to BF when I noticed the problem. It wasn't that apparent in the until I saw the blown up image.

snowy i have this problem all the time when my subject has a lot of light behind it wish i knew i am looking forward to the answer

From a glance at the exif data, there seems to be a few areas that had an impact on the quality of the shot. 1/125s is o.k. but at f9 and ISO400. Spot metering instead of partial spot (centre-weighted) would've helped get the exposure right for the subject. Lowest f# available would be better and would've allowed you to use a lower ISO setting... in fact many of the problems here are caused by ISO400 with the resulting image noise (chroma and luma) destroying detail.
Under-exposed images are always the worst for highlighting image noise.

cheers,
Andy

Thanks, Andy. I had switched to 400 to increase speed on a very dull day.

Hi Dan,
There's next to no benefit using such a high f#, so reducing that to it's lowest would've given the same shutter-speed without having to raise the ISO, or certainly let you use ISO200 for the same speed.
I know with my cp4500, ISO200 is a world of difference vs 400.
cheers,
Andy

btw: pretty good work in photoshop to bring some life to it.

Thank you!