Bodega Bay California
These are photos I took in the location where Alfred Hitchcock shot "The Birds," although there were almost no birds in the sky. I read that Hitchcock was a bird- watcher as a child, and was concerned about the plight of birds. It is said that one inspiration for the movie came after he read a 1961 newspaper article about hordes of dead birds washing up onto the streets in the seaside California town of Capitola.
As I walked around this desolate place, dreaming of what it was like when there were thriving birds there, I wondered if this film about a plague of birds almost destroying a community was about our fear of nature or our fear of the threat to nature that humans create, resulting in destruction and disorder in nature.
