When Terns Attack

This guy working on something on a floating dock at Brooklyn Bridge Park was not being appreciated by a local Common Tern.

You tell ’em!

Long before I was into birds I was set upon by a host of either Common or Forster’s Terns on a beach on Nantucket during breeding season. Tern, duck! Duck, tern! In Iceland, I experienced the Arctic Tern onslaught near their breeding grounds. You put your backpack on your head there, as they always aim for the high point, and they will hit you. They also shit on you…. Anyway, not sure why this bird was so territorial in late August.