I made a start - 1st progress

I am so glad I looked at the other posts before adding mine. I'm not the only one who had several false starts. I made my initial start New Year's evening. I overlooked that sentence in my pdf instructions that mentioned the x for the center. Since I am a center starter, I just sort of winged it and started with the vine above as my center point. Of course when I got to the bird's foot on the left I found the x. At this point I decided I had better check to make sure my fabric was big enough for my being nearly an inch off. I looked at the finished picture and realized that it was nearly square as the stitch count indicated. My fabric is really wide; 10 inches more than needed. Since I love this fabric and am frugal, I reasoned that if I undid my start and moved it over, I would have about 10 inches for another project and my favorite blotchy spot would be front and center. So out it came and over it went. I restarted enough to get me going before I went to girls night out dinner. Came home and started in using my Let's Stitch SAL time to buckle down and make progress. I progressed through 2/3 of right side bird and thought something is off...way back in the middle of the vine. Rip,rip, snarl,snarl. Here we go again. I finally finished the birds and vine. Showed it to my boyfriend who said are you going to leave it in, since I had asked him if the birds looked ok. I said yes...for now. I am thinking that those birds should be in a solid color. Good Grief! I am leaving it in for now and will evaluate as I go along. What do all of you think? I would value your opinons.