For those creating scenes, the animals or birds have priority, get these right and also positioned correctly and your on your way, obstructions like holes on side plates are a problem, if possible, work the birds between them, but positioned over a hole is ok but do it selectively.
Imagination plays a big part, the scenes I have posted could have totally different backgrounds which would transform the scene into a different place. Perspective....just one line behind the birds would take the scene from a closup study to far distance....magic .......experiment