This is the only Daphne Du Maurier story I have read. She has a few famous books so maybe I should keep a lookout for them. It was written in 1952 and is right up there with any episode of the Twilight Zone. Alfred Hitchcock was impressed, as he a made it a film in 1963. It is a good old fashioned horror story about birds on the attack. I had a few of those problems myself when a few years back, I crashed off the bike and hit the guttering due to diving swoopers. The problem with this story, is that it seems unfinished. It's the same with the film, birds are dive bombing in the thousands but there is no real explanation and then that is the end of the yarn.
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