That looks a lot better....do you mind sharing how you did that in a step by step 1234 kind of way?
That would take a lot of numbers! But the key to the whole thing is building a mask that separates the bird/branch from the background (see attachment). From there its a matter of putting in the background you want, adjusting color, brightness, etc. I just used a picture of some trees and blurred it a lot, then clipped a hue/sat adjustment layer to that to turn it a dull gold. (All of this is in Photoshop, by the way.)
Masking is the hardest part, and I can't really explain step by step how to do that because there so many variables. In this case it calls for some painstaking painting around the edges after a rough mask is made with the quick select tool. There are lots of tutorials on masking you can find by searching.