Stitched Birds

Hello, I thought as today was sunny and feels like spring, I would show a couple of cards I have made with birds on.
The top card:- I stitch a pattern around a bird topper (I think it was Hunkydory), picking out the colours of the bird. I thought the swirls in the stitched pattern went with the tail on the bird.
The bottom card:- I found this "bird in a cage" pattern on Form-A-Lines website. I cut the shape around the cage and birds using Spellbinders - Labels Eight - and then inked