The avian “invasion” panicked residents, baffled scientists, and provided inspiration for Alfred Hitchock’s “The Birds,” which celebrated its 60-year anniversary this year.
It was an otherwise unremarkable day: Urbancic, then 18 years old, had woken up before dawn to grab breakfast and head out for a 13-hour shift at his job on theWharf. It was still dark, and Urbancic could barely make out what he was looking at in the haze of the headlights on the two-lane street.
From a newspaper clipping in the Santa Cruz Sentinel on Aug. 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. Thousands were stranded in the Capitola-Pleasure Point area.”“It looked like there were a million of them. They were like locusts,” said Urbancic, who is now 82 years old and lives in Boulder Creek. “All over downtown and in the backyards.
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