I was attacked by a bear while bird-watching — it’s my own fault

It was an unbearable day for this documentarian.

A German man was viciously attacked by a bear after “entering the animal’s territory” while filming rare birds in the Carpathian Mountains of Central Europe — a region he called “Dracula’s Forest” — NewsFlash reported.

“It happened incredibly quickly. The bear came thundering out of the bushes,” award-winning filmmaker Andreas Kieling, 63, said of the beatdown a week ago.

“My instincts helped me to put up the [camera] tripod as some kind of protective shield. Then I rammed it into the bear’s mouth…I just tried to protect my neck and my head.”

Although the experienced Kieling — who was camouflaged at the time — thought quickly to save his own life, the bear still sunk its teeth into his upper left arm. It also caused gory damage to his head and face.

“I was convinced [my arm] would be fractured. Then it lunged at my left lower arm…it’s seriously injured,” he said, adding that surgeons had to remove “small parts of his bones” in the aftermath.

Still, the circumstances behind the life threatening assault remain a blur to the iconic documentarian — one who was attacked by bears twice before in Alaska, neither as severe as this one.

“It’s hard to determine how it all happened. There are numerous possible reasons,” Kieling, who posted a video regarding the attack, said.

“The bear is not to blame,” Kieling, who posted photos of his bloodied face and tattered clothes added.

Kieling posed the possibility that because it was mating season at the time, the Ursidae crater just couldn’t resist himself because “male hormones are currently buzzing.”

“Another possibility is that a deer carcass was lying in the bushes somewhere and the bear simply wanted to defend its prey,” he added, also suggesting it may have been a mama bear protecting her cubs.

In a comment on the photo, he maintained that “the bear is doing fine — it just followed its instincts. I’m alright too by now.”

After being critically wounded, someone was kind enough to drive the nature documentarian 22 hours home as well.

Despite the dear death experience, Kieling maintains that “bears don’t exist to kill us. In fact, we are living in parallel societies.”

“Bears perceive humans as another predatory species, just like wolves, hyenas, tigers or leopards…As long as there’s no conflict situation, nothing will happen. In fact, bears are shy creatures.”

He insists that the mauling was of his own doing.

“I must take the blame. It was not the bear’s fault,” Kieling said. “I entered the animal’s territory.”