You know how Batman was initially afraid of bats because he fell down the well on his property when he was a kid and they swarmed him and good old Alfred found him and said, "Why do we fall down Bruce?"
"So we can learn to get up."
Similar experience happened to me. I was photographing the moon and out of nowhere, this massive flock of birds just pummeled me and my camera. I managed to get off a few shots before they knocked me to the ground and cracked my lens.
Ever since that day though, I learned to get up.
Oh, and now I have some wicked cool moon powers.