This thread has been taking on a rather Hitchcockian theme recently (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_(film)), so here is my contribution: a skua observed from rather close quarters on the coast near the Old Man of Hoy, Orkney, in 1992.
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Not quite the quality of wildlife photography that we would get from Wharfeego, but I was subject to an air raid at the time! Fortunately no bombs were dropped, and there was no beak-to-face combat.