If you were dive bombed by a bird, what would your initial reaction be to the talons on your head?

On my way to work downtown, there is a large black bird, a starling, that sits perched atop an outcropping of a building and watches busy people going to and from their jobs. Then when their backs are turned, the bird swoops into action by swiping and plucking at the hair of the unwary.

People’s reactions vary a lot.

Personally I love this bird because it breaks people out of their everyday routine and shocks them into the immediacy of the present, where we should all be in the first place.