Standing Alone

This is a bird I found next to the waterfront along the Hudson. I took this one two? Three weeks ago as part of the assignment for shooting depth of field. The issue I'm having with the camera shows up here as I needed to zoom and walk closer to this bird to get this shot. No matter what settings I put in manual mode or selecting focus on a single point or full frame, this camera seems at times to have a mind of it's own. I guess it's to be expected from a point and shoot, still it makes taking a comparison photo almost impossible without zooming all the way out again which changes the entire cropping and sometimes the angle of the photograph.