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Very CUTE piece you have going here!
I always have to work at making designs look balanced too and have a little "cheater" rule I use.... I like to work in "thirds" by placing the focus spot approximately 1/3 from the bottom (or top) and 1/3 from the left (or right) side. Make sense? Like if I divide your background into a 9 patch grid, then I place the focus object at one of the intersections of the "seam lines". Sometime that works great, other times it doesn't, depending on the over all affect it creates. Your little bird is sitting right on one of those intersections.