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Monthly Archives: October 2005
Le Grand Corbeau
31-Oct-05Raven Cam
26-Oct-05Well, not really. The Hollywood sign also happens to be a site visited frequently by ravens, so chances are these cams, keeping our sign safe from prankters or worse, will catch the occasional raven.
Overcast and threatening rain.
Picnic area by Greek Theater. Pair of foraging ravens. One was in a dumpster making off with discarded garlic bread. The two birds then flew back to the picnic area. One remained on the tip of a dead tree while the other flew down the street. After a few minutes it returned [...]
Hooray for Toyon-wood
25-Oct-05The musical number that is our unofficial city anthem would have sounded slightly different if our city founders had been sticklers for taxonomic accuracy. Hollywood was alledgedly named for the large shrubs bearing bright red berries in the winter, not really holly, but toyon. They are one of the dominant species in the Santa Monicas [...]
Ravens and the Hollywood Sign
21-Oct-05Ever since I began this project, one thing has been missing: a photo of ravens cavorting around our most famous landmark (see November 4). Although I’ve got the bare minimum of equipment, my observations so far have shored up my belief that if I loiter in the right spot long enough, not only will one [...]
Hollywood may be a mythical tinseltown to most people, but in reality it’s a place where the ultra-famous live alongside the utterly destitute, with a lot of ordinary working people in between. Lots of residents live off dumpster diving, and ravens are no exception, as my marathon raven expedition on Sunday in Griffith Park was [...]
L’chaim to ravens everywhere
13-Oct-05Walking through Hollywood on Yom Kippur in search of ravens can’t help but remind one of the appearances of ravens in the books of the law and the prophets as carried through history by the Jewish people. As I was walking west to La Cienaga and Holloway to see if that really is a full-time [...]
Brilliant corvid photos
12-Oct-05Niall Benvie’s stunning photography. Search corvus. Excellent shots of several corvus species in Europe.
Raven Holiday
11-Oct-05Saturday - ravens galore. Visitors to Barney’s Beanery should keep their eyes open. Maybe it’s the spirit of Sal Mineo. This was one of a pair seen in both the morning and the afternoon at LaCienega and Holloway. I’d gone back to take photos of where they *had* been, and they appeared right above [...]
Fieldwork failure in Echo Park
06-Oct-05No ravens were seen Wednesday night at the bar in Barrigan’s on Sunset Blvd. in Echo Park cheering on the Angels of Anaheim as they pulled off a win against national champ wannabees the New York Yankees. Nor did any ravens take advantage of the $2.25 margaritas or the generous dinner specials, although one [...]