![]() ![]() Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images Later, when Urbancic arrived at the docks to open the gates of the wharf as the sun was just beginning to rise, one of the birds dive-bombed him out of nowhere and started pecking at his leg.įilmmaker Alfred Hitchcock surrounded by birds on a beach in Denmark on Oct. They had been trying to get inside the diner for hours, and he had been shooing them out all morning. The owner of the shop was baffled at how relentless they were. When Urbancic crossed Soquel Creek and arrived at Benias, a coffee shop about a quarter of a mile away, he was surprised to find the birds were there too - and their behavior seemed to be even more erratic. They were so thick on the road you couldn’t help but hit some of them.”īrown pelicans and a large flock of sooty shearwaters feed next to the beach in Carmel. You just felt bad trying to avoid them going down the hill. They were like locusts,” said Urbancic, who is now 82 years old and lives in Boulder Creek. “It looked like there were a million of them. Thousands were stranded in the Capitola-Pleasure Point area.” 18, 1961: “Sheriff’s Deputy Ed Cunningham inspects the damage to his prowl car roof early this morning when a sooty shearwater seabird seeking light, crashed into the car spotlight. Most, however, were motionless, and he soon realized they were already dead.įrom a newspaper clipping in the Santa Cruz Sentinel on Aug. Some of the birds were still alive but appeared to be in a daze, flopping around with a helpless, drunken sway instead of flying off. ![]()
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