We love this sort of news
Posted by ravens at March 20th, 2011
We should probably be grateful that birds do not have opposable digits…
Dr. John Marzluff to speak in Los Angeles in May
Posted by ravens at March 5th, 2011
http://www.environment.ucla.edu/calendar/showevent.asp?eventid=474
There are ravens living at
Posted by ravens at February 14th, 2011
Wilsher and Federal. I can feel it in my bones.
Apple Street Update
Posted by ravens at February 12th, 2011
I really love it when proverbs come true, and “third time’s the charm” was the charm on my third visit to Apple Street to see if anyone was home. And they were. If they are planning to nest, they are not sitting yet. This makes me wonder. Picture from 2008.
Mysteries and Sacraments of Life
Posted by ravens at January 22nd, 2011
Not 15 minutes after our arriving at St. Brendan’s Catholic Church, Mom and Pop raven also turned up. They lighted on the steeple and had a quick look at the nest there – too exposed, apparently, to rain and owls – and then they flew around to the real nest, the messy looking pile of sticks and twigs atop the head of St Brendan in his niche on the church’s facade. Here they coo’d and made romance and began to tidy their last year’s work, very much “in the mood for love.” All the while, parishioners had gathered in the church below for a funeral, sleek wealthy Hancockers in sombre threads. Rituals of life and death for the avian and primate inhabitants of Los Angeles. Anthropology or ornithology or both? Corvus corax and Homo sapiens have lived these intertwined destinies for millennia now, so much alike, but physically so far apart.
Ravens of Hancock Park
Posted by ravens at January 21st, 2011
RinH is looking forward to the imminent nesting season. This year we’ve decided to focus on specific nesting sites, hoping to observe them through the whole season. The nest at Apple and Fairfax is the most convenient, so that will be our primary site. However, the nest at St. Brendan’s Catholic Church was so successful last year, we can’t help but visit to see if it works again this year. One question, for instance, is why is there an unused nest on the northeast side of the steeple? Was it constructed, and then rejected? If the birds are going to re-use a nest, how to they go about it? And how on earth does do the parishioners survive a nestful of raven chicks raining down poop on the church porch.
Since ravens in Hollywood and the adjacent community of Hancock Park must be very familiar with local structures, we have to tip our hat to the very entertaining Houses of Hancock Park.
Dog Days, Raven Nights – Marzluff, John M.; Marzluff, Colleen; Heinrich, Bernd – Yale University Press
Posted by ravens at November 3rd, 2010
We are looking forward to this!
Being a foodie isn’t just for urban primates
Posted by ravens at October 18th, 2010
Ravens in downtown LA are enjoying a gourmet snack – Vaux’s Swifts. These visitors to LA are vulnerable as they come and go from their chimney. The LA Weekly blog has the story.
http://blogs.laweekly.com/stylecouncil/outdoors/vaux-swifts-birds-over-broadwa/
Richly deserved
Posted by ravens at June 14th, 2010
Crow Planet and its author win the 2010 Sigurd Olsen Nature Writing Award! Congratulations, Lyanda Lynn Haupt.
Literally keepimg their nest eggs in a bank
Posted by ravens at April 9th, 2010
This is not the first year for this location near Playa del Rey.
