Well not number one suffers from not enough exposure to give the bird detail. Seems that the exposure was set up for the sky not the bird. That is just one person's opinon.
Number two is just fine, nice use of foreground lines to set up depth. It is always a good tried and true technique. Maybe a little less tree would be nice but not bad. I might not have taken over so much of the viewer's eye that way. Unless you meant for it to be the center of attention. That is just my opnion which is worth about the same a human body melted down for the elements in it.