Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren)’s Timeline and Summary

Melanie, daughter of a wealthy newspaperman, lives the life of a carefree socialite in San Francisco. She gets in the papers for getting tossed into a fountain during a vacation in Italy.
Melanie is arrested for a prank that results in a broken shop window; Mitch Brenner, a lawyer, sees her in the courthouse.
Mitch and Melanie meet in a bird shop; they flirt, and Mitch plays a trick on her.
Melanie decides to track Mitch down. She buys two lovebirds as a gift for Mitch's sister and drives up to his house in Bodega Bay.
She secretly drops off the birds, but Mitch sees her. She agrees to meet Mitch for dinner and stay the night to attend his sister's birthday party.
She stays at the home of schoolteacher Annie Hayworth, who used to date Mitch.
Melanie and Mitch get acquainted. Melanie becomes friends with Mitch's sister, Cathy. She has a tense relationship with his mother, Lydia.
Meanwhile, birds begin to randomly attack people in Bodega Bay.
Melanie and Mitch's relationship becomes more serious under the stress of the bird attacks.
Melanie is traumatized by a bird attack in Mitch's attic. She's dazed and confused. More like catatonic.
Mitch drives Melanie, Lydia, and Cathy away from Bodega Bay while hordes of birds silently watch.