Although not super important at shorter distances, up to a couple thousand feet, at longer distances, you need to really be mindful of pointing the antenna in the proper direction.
After a few hundred feet, you cannot even see the bird and what has helped me was the "wifi wand" in the fpv app. I could not see a similar display in your attached screenshot. This wand helps me orient my antenna to where the bird is and displays signal strength as a function of the wand's color (eg green is good, red not so good).
This may help achieve further distances. At 10,000 feet, the slightest misdirection and signal was lost.
Food for thought!