Where’s Hitchcock when you need him?

Birds flock to 10th and Trenton

Granted, the deadly birds in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film “The Birds” were mainly comprised of crows and seagulls, but the grackles that gather at the corner of N. 10th and Trenton in the sunset hours every day always bring the movie to mind when I first saw it as a young boy in 1963. How many times I’ve watched re-runs of it on TV over the years are too many to count. The film remains a classic, and like Psycho, is considered one of the master director’s top 25 films on the list of most movie critics. Typically, “The Birds” ranks number 5, and Psycho, number 3.

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