Before leaving Griffith Park on Thanksgiving morning, I couldn’t resist stopping by the dumpster outside the Greek Theater to see if the ravens’ source of free gourmet food had dried up. It sure had. That big bin was totally empty. But no sooner than I’d turned back to the car, than I heard a familiar [...]
The Thanksgiving holiday got off to a bright, sunny start as ravens filled the skies over Griffith Park to welcome the First Annual Inter-blog Turkey Day Raven Walk. Beakspeak and Ravens in Hollywood joined forces to survey the holiday activities of this all-American bird, which is probably giving thanks for the abundant anthropogenic resources which [...]
Woke up this Thanksgiving morning with the rrak-ousness of five or six ravens chasing each other around my building. Unless that bird in the lead was a hawk… later I spied on over the empty lot next to the TraveLodge, and decided to grab the camera aned go see what might be on. Didn’t have [...]
Traveled out to Big Morongo Canyon Preserve last weekend, mainly out of curiousity after stumbling across their Web site. The possibility of seeing a Golden Eagle was another attraction, not to mention ravens. But the only ravens I saw were hanging out by (and above) the Cabazon factory outlet stores and the Morongo casino off [...]
Today they did the opposite - seven ravens soaring above Hollywood, south to north, roughly over LaBrea (really to the west, but drifting east as they approached Runyonwards). Late morning, hot with mostly clear skies. This was very similar to the soaring group of a dozen or so that I saw above Redlands last Saturday, [...]
So why are all the ravens keeping it low? Ideal soaring conditions late morning and noon, but the only birds I saw were 40-50 ft. One crossed northbound in a beeline over Santa Monica Blvd. at Sycamore, using a lot of wing power so it must have been going somewhere, and two over LaBrea and [...]
Near noon inn sunny, warm blue skies over LaBrea and Santa Monica Blvd, three ravens intercepting a large hawk.
I wonder why I bother running hither and yon to see ravens - there are plenty at home. Agitated crows outside woke me up all too early, but lying in bed later, I heard that familiar rruk-rruk, no doubt from the pines above my building, and then closer - looking out the window, two birds [...]
In the drizzle of a grey November morning, and our second storm of the season, a raven was foraging around the rooftops and large dish antennas of a local television station (this isn’t the Media District for nothing). This is very near the previous week’s sightings. I cannot imagine being a raven and trying to [...]
On the way to a morning hike under clearing skies, we came across a disturbed landscape on a ridge overlooking Lake Hollywood. I spotted the raven right away, but many crows flew off (the raven did not) and answered my previous questions about whether or not they entered the hills much. I think this is [...]
