Hitchcock often visited Capitola during his filming of Vertigo, a nice little seaside community below Santa Cruz, on one of the weekends he read of bird attacks on tourist. The seed was planted for the movie.
A side note for baseball fans, Harry Hooper was an outfielder for the early great Boston Red Sox teams the others in the outfield were Duffy Lewis and Tres Speaker. all three in the HOF Harry was the postmaster for Cupertino from 1933 into the 50s
Hitchcock didn’t come up with idea for The Birds,it was from a story by Daphne Dumaurier..