Bodega Bay is a small shallow, sand-choked inlet of the Pacific Ocean on the coast of northern California in the United States. It is approximately 5 miles across and is located approximately 40 miles Northwest of San Francisco and 20 miles west of Santa Rosa. The bay straddles the boundary between Sonoma (north) and Marin (south) counties. Bodega Bay was also the setting of the Alfred Hitchcock film, The Birds.