“You can’t hide under me forever, Stanley. I know the birds are loud and scary and they steal your fish, but you’re a bear, for goodness sake! Get out there and face them!”

Brown Bear with Cub, by steve "steve" stevens, CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
“You can’t hide under me forever, Stanley. I know the birds are loud and scary and they steal your fish, but you’re a bear, for goodness sake! Get out there and face them!”

Brown Bear with Cub, by steve "steve" stevens, CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
Oh sweetie those birds are scary? Wait until you meet one of these!
A seagull once stole my coffee cake out of my hand on the beach.
that nearby gull does look kind of smug