The hamlet of Bodega LOOKS like a movie set with a gothic school house and church located high on the hill; a general store and a road winding through town:
In fact, Bodega and environs is the setting for the Alfred Hitchock horror movie The Birds. The [long gone] farmhouse used in the film belonged to my brother-in-law’s grandmother and the family has this seagull decoy as a souvenir:
Fortunately, the birds we encountered were more benign: