A Review of Birds Site v1 by Ben Hewitt

I like this site a lot - it's definately engaging and I really like the use of texture and graphical elements to enhance the look, feel and overall experience of a visit... althouhg... it is a little busy

To start off I'd say there is too much space between your photo frame at the top and the top of the page - reduce this for sure

The welcome text doesn't fit whatsoever, choose a different font and position it within that frame not hanging outside of it. Also shift your links over to the left and bang the search top right maybe.

I think, depending on how things look when the frame is shifted up - you could try moving the american bird products type logo to under the ABP logo on the top left - might give you more room to shift the frame up

To justify this... and this is my main point really... Since you have such a strongly themed site (which represents the purpose pretty well) I think you need to make sure you tie everything together and play on the natural theme. Since you have so much natural elements and textures going on - dont ruin it with fonts that as some people have said here 'fit the american theme', replace it with more natural fitting type. Just keep the theme in mind :)

Overall its a great start though Id like to see the progress!