Interesting starting place, I think the first priority would make the field of view a lot wider. And an audio queue to help you know when the bird is coming would be good too. What if you changed the bird to something scarier, or the player to something sillier. Like make the bird an ostrich and keep the man. Or make the people instead french fries since Pidgeons steal those all the time. (Looking at the screen shot it doesn't look like a Pidgeon but in-game that's what I thought it was so maybe lean into it?)