Since you asked what would I do, I had a little play with the 2nd one hope you don't mind it is a great image as it stands, all I have done is a few adjustments to bring forward the bird a little bit :)

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html