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Nat declines the gun, but manages to shove Jill safely into the car before the birds set upon him.

Trigg, offers Nat a gun and Jill a ride home in his truck, which will be much faster than walking. Seeing the birds, Nat rushes from the house to pick up his young daughter, Jill, from the school bus. By 3 o’clock in the afternoon, the sun is already blocked out by the gathering birds, and the sky is dark. While he works, Nat becomes aware that there are many in his village who don’t understand the severity of the impending attack, but he knows he cannot save them. Rushing home, Nat quickly boards up his doors, windows, and chimneys from what he is sure is another impending attack.

There, he notices thousands of seagulls riding the waves as if patiently waiting for something. Nat gathers all the dead birds from around his home and takes them to the beach to bury them. Reports of bird attacks across the world are reported on the wireless radio. Soon, however, word of the attack spreads. The next morning, Nat cleans up fifty dead birds in his house, but none of his neighbors believe his story of the attack. Batting the birds away from him, Nat rushes to their rescue. He hears his children screaming in their bedrooms. When he opens the window, half a dozen birds fly in attacking him. When the tapping moves to his window, Nat rises to drive the bird away.

That evening in bed, Nat hears a strange tapping on his roof. Perhaps, they think winter has come early. He thinks the weather has affected the birds’ behavior. Nat Hocken, a wounded war veteran who now supports his family by working part-time at the local farm, has noticed that all the birds in the village seem uncharacteristically restless. The Birds opens on the third day of December, when the seaside weather has changed overnight.