Bird Id Part 2.5

[ken1953]

Hello all...
I was outside a little while ago, shooting some icicles intertwined in my christmas lights, when something flew overhead. I had just set my Nikon CP 8400 to "Sport" mode to try to stabilize my photos a bit. I jumped on the chance to shoot this bird all the time thinking, wow, what luck...I'm set for a sport setting, I should get a nice pic.... :-( well...1 out of 3 came out recognizable, I think...I spent 3 years hoping for a shot like this with my Kodak, which would have caught this bird clearly at this range, only about 20' above me. Anyway...here it is...the second pic is cropped as close as I can get it without causing an unrecognizable photo. The first photo is so that anyone who can tell me how to set my camera settings to prevent this type of problem in the future, can see what I got.
Anyway, here they are...