This is a bird note.

Location, location location.

Location is just as important in birding as in real estate,

but unlike real estate, where the prime location

has a panoramic view or great ambience, birding is often best in the most unlikely places.

For instance, sewage treatment plants are great places to look for birds.

Watch for gulls, ducks, and the ever vigilant raptors keeping watch nearby.

Another place might be your local landfill or dump.

From Alaska to southern Texas, or dump.

From Alaska to southern Texas, dumps are often great places to find good birds.

The Juno Alaska landfill is famous for its gathering of gulls, and you used to be able to find lots of ravens too.

And at the southern tip of the country, the Brownsville, Texas dump was for years the only place in the U.S.

You could find a Tomolipus crow. For a more sedate birding adventure, visit a cemetery.

Especially in rural areas and in the Midwest, cemeteries are often repositories of native plants,

remnants of the native habitats of the 19th century.

They're magnets for migratory birds which find food and cover in those

green oases. They're quiet too. Just remember birds are where you find them.